by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
The net effect of allowing charitable and religious organizations to escape paying taxes that everyone else pays is the same as if those organizations were subsidized directly from the treasury. In the end, everyone else must pay more taxes to make up the forgone...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of public money. —David Crockett. Quoted in “Not Yours to Give,” by Edward S. Ellis, 1884. Charity reflects an...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
Border security is vital for preventing criminals, drugs, and illegal immigrants entering a country. The porous border with Mexico has exposed the United States to floods of migrants who threaten to overwhelm its ability to absorb them into its law-abiding culture....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
The agricultural population would become more and more a sort of appendage to a national park, quaint folk preserved to people the scenery, and deliberately prevented from making the mental and technological adjustments that would enable them to be self-supporting....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
In America, such affirmative action programmes have not only become a heavy burden on employers of all kinds; by increasing the resentment of the majority against minorities they have precisely the opposite effect to that intended. —Margaret Thatcher. The Fourth...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
The savages of America, like other men, have their predominant passions. They esteem war and hunting as almost the only pursuits worthy of a man … these constitute their highest point of honor, while every other labor of life is imposed on the women, who are no better...
