Well Bernie can honestly say he gave in his taxes with his blessings.
You just don’t understand the scheme (rhetorical you, not necessarily bigbob).
The point here is who is going to make Caesar look the most like a church. Not the least! The more “charity” Caesar sends out, the better under this model. Ted Cruz can’t hope to come up to that level.
I know, what a ghastly ungodly thought. And you (rhetorical you) are right, it is. But we might as well be honest about our blasphemy, if we are going to insist on blaspheming.
I think I followed that ;-) To me, a candidate’s religious preferences are a minor consideration, unless the candidate makes it a big part of his presentation. Then I examine it like anything else a candidate puts forth to understand what it says about them. And that’s where Cruz falls off the chart, because his actions don’t match up with his positioning on religious issues.
Of course Cruz looks positively magnanimous compared with Joe Biden. And to my mind, 4% is pretty chintzy when you’re a Democratic Socialist whose whole thing is giving away other peoples money til there’s no more left to give. So Bernie fails the test also.