Posted on 12/03/2018 1:23:17 PM PST by a little elbow grease
The Catholic Church may have been corrupt but Henry and his heirs far out stripped the Church in both corruption and brutality. Henry set in motion a purge of Catholics in Britain and Ireland that would count deaths in the millions.
Now THAT is hogwash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKhbaLyIFw
Try this — THE SILHOUETTES - “GET A JOB” (1957) -— played on a loop at all unemployment and welfare offices
> “The Church’s vast and corrupt accumulation of wealth is what set the stage for Henry VIII’s seizure of the monasteries and the rise of Protestantism in England.”
This was, no doubt, a welcome side benefit, but I really doubt it was the primary reason Henry VIII changed the religion of England.
Yes, and no. More and more students and parents are going to revolt against the rapacious cost of education. Many courses that the Left infests, like English Literature, Sociology, Psychology, etc., can be taken on line. There really isn’t any need for a student to sit like a drone in a classroom being brainwashed. Home Schooling curricula is also getting better.
I noticed that Thiel, being homosexual, made a dig against the Catholic Church. He should know better, but given that most of his audience are “libertarians” who don’t think much of religion, I’m not surprised.
“Serious question if anyone knows..Is there EVER away to save in taxes more than you donated?”
I think it’s 30% of your reported donation amount is all you can really expect to shave your taxable income total... which the lower your taxable income the less taxes you pay if you have already paid taxes upfront you might get some of that back. Or better yet (or not)... You don’t owe anything extra on top of what you all have already paid. I do not know who said it but it’s true... “The only two sure things in life is death and taxes.” Unless it was misunderstood and the person who made that quote was actually saying “death in Texas...” I can’t remember.
But seriously, My Hope is that at some point in time, and it probably won’t be in my lifetime, we can have some governmental fiscal responsibility rather than special interest, grossly frivolous grants, and other things that are associated with a fraud, waste and abuse. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful expectation to have fulfilled?
GREAT post. On many levels
The death In Texas thing was funny :)
So even though he gets the deduction he still is giving about 700k of his own money to Trump and he’s probably the only one in silicon valley doing that :)
I hope it wasn’t to hope for favors down the road. Who knows?
How can the government EVER EVER not spend too much??
I’m bad with credit cards and they’re MY Credit cards, so I keep few. I know my vices.
Imagine a credit card that you DONT HAVE TO PAY back, others do.
IT WILL always be abused and we need some kind of answer to the problem.
But i’ll be damned if i know what it is.
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