It would be politically productive to spotlight the inviolable conscience of religious pacifists
who do not want their tax contributions paying for Uncle Sam's belligerence.
who do not want their tax contributions paying for Uncle Sam's belligerence.
If "The Right" were to admit that people of conscience who oppose war (or even a particular war) need not pay that portion of their taxes which supports the Defense Department,
I would be prepared to barter away Obamacare's free access to contraception.
I would be prepared to barter away Obamacare's free access to contraception.
However, I also assume "The Right" understands that such wide-ranging respect for conscience would unleash a revolution, thus ensuring their refusal to make such compromise simultaneously insisting on their own "rights" even though the rights of pacifists carry more suasive force.
Conservatives are convinced that preventing conception is more important than preventing Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Panama, Granada, the Phillipines -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillipine_war -- and the overthrow of Iran's democratically-elected president Mosaddegh in 1953.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
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Suggested Bumper Sticker:
"Paying Taxes For Washington's Self-Destructive Wars
Violates My Conscience"
"Paying Taxes For Unjust Wars
Violation The Geneva Accords"
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"Just War?"
... or just war...
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/12/daily-dose-122511-just-war-or-just-war.html
Conservatives are convinced that preventing conception is more important than preventing Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Panama, Granada, the Phillipines -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillipine_war -- and the overthrow of Iran's democratically-elected president Mosaddegh in 1953.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
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Suggested Bumper Sticker:
"Paying Taxes For Washington's Self-Destructive Wars
Violates My Conscience"
"Paying Taxes For Unjust Wars
Violation The Geneva Accords"
***
"Just War?"
... or just war...
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/12/daily-dose-122511-just-war-or-just-war.html