It is wrong to punish the godly for being good
or to flog leaders for being honest.Proverbs 17:26 New Living Translation
This is what done – punish and/or flog – when taxes are raised on the “rich”.
Now, lets define rich, they are people who have amassed wealth through legal and moral trade of what one person has for what the other person has. I am not focused on individuals who amass wealth through illegal means (steeling) or immoral/illegal means (fraud) or even simply immoral means (oppression of the poor) … but that is not the group of people who a portion of the population wants to make “pay their fair share”. [Read more…]