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Taxation is not stealing. I agree taxes and the welfare state need to be kept to a minumem but I think you will find there is widespread support in the country for properly funded public services.
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Taking money from someone without their permission is theft, no amount of sophistry will change that.
Furthermore, you as a Christian should know that might does not make right.
However, this completely misses the point. I don't think that an embryo is a person, you don't think that taxation is stealing. However, you are happy to give those who have an opinion on the personhood of embryos a free vote, but not those who have an opinion on the morality of taxation.
Again - the bias is so obvious. Your Christian mindset has made you have such a strong political bias in favour of your personal religion, you have shown this here and you have shown it when you back the establishment of the church, especially when evidence from other states shows that a disestablished church is better at helping the needy.
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It is the duty of any government to care for people.
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No it isn't. It is the duty of individuals to do so, since a government only exists because individuals do. How can a legal fiction possibly care for anyone? Furthermore, it should never be obligatory.
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What you are putting forward lacks any sense of reality.
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This is your opinion of libertarianism, it is also my opinion of many of your beliefs. This adds nothing to the discussion.