Copyright Carl Janssen - This will be published right now in 2024 - This was written at an unknown date - It was in my drafts
Most people say taxation is ok because it is for a greater good but to paraphrase the catechism it is a sin to do an evil action even if it is done to achieve a good result specifically listing murder, theft and lying. Taxation is lying to claim someone owes a debt for something they did not agree to and did not owe on account of causing harm to a individual or their possession of property. Taxation is also theft since it is taken something that rightfully belongs to someone else and not you without their properly informed consent as they were lied to and coerced with the threat of violence being done to you possibly resulting in murder if you do not comply. Taxation involved three cardinal or mortal sins that are still sins even if a good is promised in return such as creating roads, feeding the poor, providing infrastructure, paying for research education or healthcare or hiring people to defend people from violence, etc.
Furthermore taxation involves an absence of the four cardinal virtues of prudence, fortitude, temperance and justice.
Taxation is an absence of prudence because it is a choice not to exercise your conscience to realize Taxation is a violation of the commands not to murdrr, lie and steal.
Taxation is an absence of fortitude because it involves quitting before using the prudence to figure out how to get the good you want without resorting to sin or a lack of perseverance in exercising temperance if you must deny gratification of achieving a good you want in order to avoid evil.
Taxation is an absence of justice because it involves hearing false witness, stealing from the rightful owners to give to those who do not rightfully own something and murdering or threatening to murder people who should not be executed.
Taxation is a failure to implement the grace to live a more virtuous life.
Taxation is also an absence of the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity
It is an absence of faith as it is a failure to profess and witness to God's moral teachings and involves a lifestyle of dead faith.
Taxation is an absence of the virtue of hope because it is a failure to imagine the possibility that things could work for good if one is obedient to God's moral teachings.
Taxation is an absence of charity because murder, lying and theft are opposed to love.
Taxation involves a boastful arrogance and lack of generosity because it is worse than giving all you have to the poor that you may boast but lacking love. Taxation is giving what belongs to someone else that you may boast of feign generosity instead of giving what belongs to you.
Taxation is a violation of the fruits of charity of joy, peace and mercy.
Taxation is a violation of joy because coveting is a killjoy
Taxation is a violation of mercy because how much less mercy is there not to harm someone who has done you no wrong then to harm someone who has done you wrong. Taxation of all white people or all males, or the Germans, for alleged sins of their ancestors as some people have suggested is a unjust vengeful attitude that lacks mercy.
Taxation is an absence of peace as it involves the threat of violence. Taxation also stems from anxiety of what will happen if one can not use taxation to get the goods desired.
Taxation is oppositional to beneficence, friendship and communion as it involves reaching out to a third party bureaucratic system for receiving help instead of developing friendships and using a third party bureaucracy as an excuse not to exercise beneficence towards your neighbor.
Taxation is an absence of benevolence as there is nothing kind about it
Taxation is a violation of the seven gifts of the spirit
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