Christian principles in relation to government

I must say, the efficiency of contradicting yourself within the confines of one sentence is a great idea.Real time saver.Kudos.

In fairness, the proliferation of loopholes meant that no one in their right mind actually paid those marginal rates. Your underlying point stands though. As more than a few people have pointed out, the U.S. was building schools and highways and going to the moon in the era when conservatives were bemoaning the growth of taxes and regulations.

On a different forum I once had a creationist claiming that it shur wunnut the Christians that was pro slavery in the antebellum South, it were the Damn Atheists. You know, the Confederate atheists, precursors to today's liberal nazis.