{"id":4708,"date":"2011-11-03T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2011-11-03T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:12:04","slug":"taxes-and-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4708","title":{"rendered":"Taxes and Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Hannan, writing for the London Telegraph, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/danielhannan\/100115117\/there-is-nothing-moral-about-higher-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">poses the following question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now that [Archbishop of Canterbury] Rowan Williams is intruding into the debate about a financial transactions tax, I&#8217;d like to ask him a question. Which does he consider more meritorious \u2013 to give your own money to good causes\u2026or to force your customers, clients and shareholders to do so in the name of &#8216;corporate social responsibility&#8217;? Which has more virtue \u2013 to &#8216;sell that thou hast, and give to the poor&#8217;, or to be expropriated through the tax system?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His article is a good, short read on the subject. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Hannan, writing for the London Telegraph, poses the following question. Now that [Archbishop of Canterbury] Rowan Williams is intruding into the debate about a financial transactions tax, I&#8217;d like to ask him a question. Which does he consider more meritorious \u2013 to give your own money to good causes\u2026or to force your customers, clients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,9,15,18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}