Comments on: The Blindness of Tax Purists

By: John M.

John M. — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:21:04 +0000

“…being a parent—the single most important act of citizenship anyone can perform”

This is an extreme overreach. What about people who give their lives in service as first responders, nurses, soldiers, holders of high office, etc.? Are we saying that the WORST parent is more important than the BEST priest?
The next time I’m scheduled for heart surgery and the surgeon cancels because his kid’s ballgame got rescheduled and now conflicts with my procedure, should I be OK with that?

Reproduction is a hard-wired biological urge practiced even by solitary animals in the wild. It does NOT have anything particular to do with citizenship.

This is pandering to the masses FT. Huge miss.

By: John Hinshaw

John Hinshaw — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:38:48 +0000

This area is probably the best to show why Christians should walk carefully with “economic conservatives”. Economic conservatives of libertarian bent,often seek to remove morality from economic discussions while moralistically speaking of property rights. They have done good work in trying to explain to a distracted culture how government intrusion hinders economic well-being of citizens. But when did it become conservative to defend the most successful revolution of the 1960′s – the sexual revolution?

By: john

john — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:32:07 +0000

I’m not even sure conservatives are presenting the best case for the child tax credit. One can be uncompromisingly ideologically rigid and still support the child tax credit. In fact, it helps to be very ideological, regardless of ideology.

Everyone, liberal, conservative, libertarian, is for some form of welfare for those who can’t support themselves through no fault of their own. A child is a person with no possible means of supporting himself. The child tax credit is welfare for the child. We give it to the parent because the child isn’t even able to spend it for himself. It is NOT welfare for the parent.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:52:39 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I would love to see the Republican Party adopt the pro-family tax plan championed by Robert Stein and Ramesh Ponnuru. Expand the child-tax credit and put more money into the hands of parents.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:14:34 +0000

If there is a silver lining to the demographic cloud massing above certain nations, it could be that it will lead to a renewed understanding of the importance of child-rearing and marriage in the stability of society.