This is because some issues which starkly reveal the candidate's character, and thus they provide a window on his position on many similar issues and options.
If a candidate would allow the murder of one innocent person, when it's to his benefit, there's ho reason in principle why he wouldn't murder again, when it's to his benefit.
I see you don't pay taxes. To borrow a phrase, and with all sincerity, "Good luck with that."
Allow me to propose to you two moral conundrums ...
The First:
My wife and I cannot have children. But suppose for the argument, she were to become pregnant, and something goes horribly wrong in the last month, something that comes to a choice that I have to make - between saving the life of my wife or of the only child I might ever have ... Whose life should I choose to sacrifice?
The Second:
It is mid winter ... I am standing equidistant between two people: My younger sister and a small but unrelated little girl in the opposite direction ...
The child is walking along a set of railroad tracks, and being apparently deaf, she is oblivious to a train fast approaching from behind ... At the same time, my sister is skating on a nearby frozen pond, when she suddenly breaks through the ice and plunges into the water! I know that she cannot swim, and though she is clinging to the edge of the broken ice, she is losing her grip ...
Both individuals are in immediate jeopardy of life, but I can only reach one in time to save them from certain death.
Which one should I save? Which one do I sacrifice?
On the matter of paying taxes to Baal - you avoided answering my challenge. If you and the numerous individuals of the pro-life movement would commit to placing all on the line, then you would likely win the war, even if you personally must loose the battle by suffering the sacrifice of your own possessions and freedom.
You and many others insist they are “committed to life” - yet you and many have not the strength of conviction to sacrifice your own life for the sake of saving others.
If you think you can win this battle while playing by the rules of the enemy - The I can only reply: “Good Luck with that!”
Do you want to see what true courage and sacrifice looks like? Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYq614xqnlI