Are schools teaching Marxism and opposing our western free enterprise system?

[blackbird]

42 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Does your Bible tell you to treat it more like a charitable donation when you remit your taxes to a conservative government?

No.  Citizens are required to obey the law and pay the taxes that are established.

However, we live in a democracy where free speech is supposed to be guaranteed.  Therefore everyone has the right to oppose laws, taxes, and spending which they feel are wrong.  It is part of our democratic system that evolved out of a historic Judeo-Christian civilization.

[eyeball]

2 minutes ago, blackbird said:

Governments only have so much money and Canada is already deeply in debt. 

If the government of the day is conservative do you donate money to them in addition to your remittance of taxes?

[blackbird]

1 minute ago, eyeball said:

If the government of the day is conservative do you donate money to them in addition to your remittance of taxes?

No.  Why would you ask that?

[eyeball]

52 minutes ago, blackbird said:

No.  Why would you ask that?

It's your team.

OTOH, is it possible for a socialist government to be anything other than a thief?

[Michael Hardner]

1 hour ago, eyeball said:

It's your team.

OTOH, is it possible for a socialist government to be anything other than a thief?

Are people going to still be against charity for the poor when almost everyone is poor?

Edited November 23, 2024 by Michael Hardner

[herbie]

2 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Are people going to still be against charity for the poor when almost everyone is poor?

Look around you then ask that question again....

How many railing against this $250 handout are going to donate it to a charity?

Did taxes for a lady who only claims to be a Christian but doesn't go to church so she can't possibly be one according to some. She made only $14,400 on disability and donated $3200 to tax eligible charities.
Doesn't get a nickel back out of that.
Silly thing is, they told her decades ago that claiming married on your income tax means they rip you off even worse, and no one's gonna convince her otherwise. Could've saved her old man at least $1000 on his taxes.
- but, but that's HIS money.... live together 35 years and still think his and hers, too.

 

[eyeball]

7 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

Are people going to still be against charity for the poor when almost everyone is poor?

Probably not the ones who like saying no poor man ever gave me job. I've made good money on occasion working for people who were otherwise living on a shoestring trying to keep everyone working.

Imagine the resistance there might be against something like the replicators on Star Trek based on thinking free stuff is just wrong. 

Are people still going to be moral when almost everyone is wealthy?