by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
The rights of parents and the rights of family take precedence over those of Washington-based bureaucrats and social engineers. —Ronald Reagan. Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Florida, March 8, 1983. One of the greatest evils the state can...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
As each individual relies upon the helpful vigilance of the state, he learns to abandon to its responsibility the fate and wellbeing of his fellow-citizens. But the inevitable tendency of such abandonment is to deaden the living force of sympathy, and to render the...
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....
