In an earlier post I commented on the fact that our government, whether it be local, state or federal, does not produce anything it can sell to satisfy its debt. It can ONLY tax its citizens. That tax is on the money its citizens EARN themselves and it is money given to the government to pay for infrastructure such as police, fire, roads and bridges, yes even bridges to nowhere in Alaska.
The Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case that an earlier federal district court dismissed as “frivolous”. Why? Because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a tax credit – which is the taxpayer’s OWN money, remember – when used by a private citizen to pay for education at a religious institution is a violation of church and state and therefore unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
For this to be the case, the Ninth Circuit CoA is assuming this money in private hands belongs to the government and not to the private citizen who earned it. Again why? Because it is money that WOULD have been given to the government and therefore they can tell you how to spend it. Is that not CRAZY?
I don’t think it is me but I’m beginning to worry about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.