{"id":212,"date":"2025-04-15T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/april-15th-render-unto-caesar\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:15:40","slug":"april-15th-render-unto-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/april-15th-render-unto-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"April 15th: “Render unto Caesar . . . .”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you settle accounts with the Infernal Revenue 'Service'?  If yes, then celebrate with The Beatles<\/a>, Harrison and Clapton<\/a>, and Tom Petty<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

No, I am not opposed to paying taxes.  I am not anti-tax any more than I am anti-government. We need government, and we need to fund it somehow.  It does not<\/em> follow, however, that there must be an income tax.  There are alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

We paid 14% of our 2024 income in federal and state income taxes. What did you pay?<\/span><\/p>\n

Did we get value for our money? We got Biden-Harris. That suffices for an answer. No need to get scatological about it.  We are very lucky, however, that our geopolitical adversaries did not take the opportunity to pounce on us in our Biden-induced weakness. They wouldn't dare do that now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Say what you want about tariffs, but one thing is blindingly evident: it is utter folly to be dependent on one's enemies for such essentials as pharmaceuticals and semiconductors, to mention just two classes of goods we cannot do without. And say what you want about Trump, but he alone<\/em> has the cojones to end this insane dependency. The Dems are for it, and the Republicans would only talk about it. Too bad the moniker 'Big Balls' is already taken . . . . <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you settle accounts with the Infernal Revenue 'Service'?  If yes, then celebrate with The Beatles, Harrison and Clapton, and Tom Petty. No, I am not opposed to paying taxes.  I am not anti-tax any more than I am anti-government. We need government, and we need to fund it somehow.  It does not follow, however, that there must … Continue reading “April 15th: “Render unto Caesar . . . .””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}