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Buying civilisation

By / 4 November 2008

I liked this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, the famous US Supreme Court Judge, who said:

‘I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilisation.’

Of course some of the taxes we pay go to crap initiatives that are misguided and unconstructive. But maybe we should stop thinking of taxes as wholly bad, as they seem to be portrayed so often. Taxes are crucial for the funding of our health system, education, infrastructure, supporting vulnerable families, heaps of stuff that’s totally fundamental to a fair society. Maybe some of us should stop feeling so hard done by!

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This site is run by the Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church.

We seek to nurture justice spirituality and imagination, and engage in advocacy in all areas of life, overcoming poverty and transforming violence.

We encourage people to think and live “justly”, and emphasise debate and action on local, national and global issues.

Although we are Anglican, our vision isn’t so much about being Anglican. It’s about living justly. Justice is about how you live your life, and being just where we are. Working together, we can all flourish.

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