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In the final stages of a (currently very long) essay on Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P., a dominican friar and Catholic radical of the interwar period, deeply influential on Dorothy Day, Chesterton, Maritain and (I strongly suspect) J.R.R. Tolkien. McNabb’s activism was in part an extension of the Arts and Crafts movement’s political expression,…
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“The fullest possible account would’ve entailed all the individual biographies of all the millions of people who fell under judgement. And that wouldn’t have been a library full of books but a library full of libraries.”
The Global Flood: Judgment or Mercy? (Genesis 7:11)
Thom is on the money again. I made this argument to a red state right-wing supporter when savaging the SALT cap on Federal tax return deductions. I explained that it was uncapped before to correct for the fact that blue states pay more in Federal taxes, while getting less Federal funding and comparatively providing more services in their states than red states.
I included links to support and made the point that Republicans raised Federal taxes on middle class families in blue states to give breaks to wealthy people. Needless to say, no amount of facts or reason swayed him. Honestly, I believe that rolling back the post-Clinton wealthy tax breaks and removing the SALT cap could help accomplish some correction to this dynamic.
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