Okay, so I guess we as a society have changed the overwhelming belief in God to transfer our faith, hope, ethical responsibility, and setting up of moral code to government instead.
Even as the wheels grind out so-called ‘justice’ which camouflages a liberal inner guilt that rather than rationalizing is instead deflected by the needless spewing out of lawmaking, Hollywood is busy Photoshopping out the offending scenes in Clint Eastwood’s Hang ’em High. Maybe it’s a generation thing, but show me a noose and it’ll bring up thoughts of cattle rustlers and horse thieves. Ah, the good old days of society’s impact on the cowboy. But then again, lynching down south and lynching in the west was going on about the same time, and the majority of it all was over a century ago. Even I am not that old.
What I propose is this: That along with our tax bill we get a form to check as to the apportionment of a portion (since nobody would check the box for congressional salary increases) of our individual tax dollars towards spending. As an opposer of capital punishment, I would sooner keep my dollar a day maintaining some murderer rotting away in a prison cell than putting it towards the tab of more useless legislation.
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