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Joe Biden has said it is patriotic to pay higher taxes. However my brother in law told me that someone had once said to him that it was our Christian duty to pay as little taxes as we possibly can get away with legally. I was a little skeptical at first, but he made a good point. We are called to be good stewards of the money God has given us. We know that the American government is not even close to being good stewards of the money they take from the taxpayers. So first of all we should give what we are required to give but we should not give a penny more, and not encourage the government to take any more. Any individual can and should and likely will make much better use of their money and do a better job distributing it to the needy. Not only will we do a better job giving money to the needy we won’t encourage the breakup of families in the process. Some people will not do a very good job with their money but that is their individual responsibility and they will have to deal with the consequences.  For anybody who thinks this will cause a great loss in charity to the needy, just look at how many successful charities were started and run well without the government’s involvement and then look at how many well run charities their are that the government created. I don’t think there is one on the government’s side that is really run well and for the ones that aren’t run well, not only is it money wasted but the Constitution doesn’t call for or allow for federally created charity.

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