In God We Trust

Saturday October 22^nd, Matthew 22: 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"  21 "Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." O my, how we hate to pay taxes.  But name me one politician who has actually cut taxes.  There have been politicians who have shifted taxes from the poor to the rich and from the rich to the poor, from local to national and from national to local, from government funded to private funded and from private funded to local funded, but no one has ever actually cut the cost of a civil society.  When you cut everyone’s taxes all you are doing is cutting services.  When you insist on tax cuts for the wealthy, it is so they will support your campaign for re-election and the poor pay the price in cut services.  So let’s finally cut the b.s. about cutting taxes and talk about what it cost to maintain a civil society.  Let us talk about a society where roads are built and maintained, where children are educated and to what degree that would be a benefit to society, where health is maintained and to what benefit to society and how, where military is maintained at what level and for what purpose and at what cost to society and why.  Let us have real conversations about real societal needs.  Our currency has the words on it, “In God We Trust.”  Until we get to that point, all the rhetoric is just b.s.