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Supreme Court Moore Case – Conservatives Dismiss Founding Era Opinion

Supreme Court Moore Case – Conservatives Dismiss Founding Era Opinion

Organizations that generally favor lower taxes and a more limited role for the federal government will often also be arguing for an originalist interpretation of the Constitution.  In this case the anti-tax argument requires them to make light of a Supreme Court decision that came down when the ink was barely dry on the Constitution.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.