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CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Compulsory Charity”

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“Texas Gov. George W. Bush has announced nearly $500,000 in state grants to Christian groups. Bush said, ‘America will be changed because people of faith and good heart are willing to help people in need.’ Where exactly is the goodness in this? The Texas state government collects tax from the people of Texas. If they refuse to pay the taxes, they’re punished by the state. Using the tax money to help Christians, Bush implies that the Texas taxpayers have engaged in a saintly act. Hasn’t Bush instead denigrated the Christian concepts of free will and ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’?”

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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.