Last week President Obama ended the Mexico City policy, a policy that had prevented U.S. taxpayer money from funding foreign organizations that perform abortions. The fallout is that now, U.S. tax dollars will pay for foreign abortions. My understanding is that Minnesota already has some form of taxpayer-funded abortions.
So here’s the question:
If the government uses taxpayer money to fund abortions, are Christians released from their obligation to pay some or all of their taxes?
Comments are most welcome.
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February 4, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I don’t have an income, so I’ve never paid taxes. Even though we are commanded to pay taxes, I think we have the right to protest such decisions that the government makes. This is exactly the type of case in which the government is telling us to do something that goes directly against the Bible (namely abortion). I don’t want to support the killing of babies. Maybe if there was a separate tax that we could boycott?
If we did “boycott” taxes, that would really divide the country on this issue, in which case Obama would hopefully undo this law for the sake of unity. But we have to do something. This kind of thing can’t happen without us sending some message that we’re not just going to say “oh well, they won.” We’re talking about thousands of lives!
February 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm
We have to pay taxes in America? Woops, better start getting on that…