But how are taxes and compassion reconciled in a country that considers itself a Christian country with a growing 'needy' in a Darwinian economy world?
The growing numbers of needy are a direct result of taxation and welfare state. Taxation kills the ability to give charity and the money used for welfare promotes reliance on itself.
There was an old timer in my little town who arrived here during a cold winter night during the depression. He went to the parsonage and asked the pastor for a place to sleep and maybe a meal. The pastor’s wife fixed a modest dinner for the guy and let him sleep in a small heated shed behind the church. The next morning the pastor told the guy that he could wait out the cold weather if he was willing to work for his meals and a place to sleep.
That drifter spent the rest of his life living in this town. He picked up more and more work from the church parishioners as they got to know him. He built that little shed into a respectable house, bought a car, found a regular cash paying job, got married etc.
The same people demanding more taxes to pay for compassionate government are the same people who are wrecking the economy thus creating “darwinist” conditions.
Its a trick question. Turn the economy around and there will be plenty of money for government largesse. Even the ineffective kind. Keep driving the economy into the dirt and there won’t be any money for anything.
In any case, the problem isn’t just taxes; people have a bad habit of using the tax issue as shorthand for the real issue which is government intervention in the economy, government intervention in private lives, and regulatory agencies that have become predatory. The government wrecks an industry and then wrings its hands over the poor who used to have jobs. And demands to fix the problem by means of further intervention.