Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 15, 2009

This year, as occasionally happens, Resurrection Sunday and Tax Day fell just a few days apart. Easter celebrates the triumph of the ultimate life-giver ? our Lord and Savior. Tax Day, by way of contrast, is dominated by the ultimate life-stealer - - the state.

Each of us invests a portion of our most perishable possession ? time ? to earn money. Thus every forcible imposition on our earnings ? through direct taxation, or its more subtle surrogate, inflation -- represents an increment of life stolen by the state.

This isn?t true of free transactions, or the voluntary donation of wealth through charity. What the state takes it steals at gunpoint.

And what it steals from us it uses to blight the lives of others ? either through domestic tyranny or military aggression abroad.

The message of Easter is that death is reversible. With death being conquered, why are taxes considered inevitable?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.