Sacrifice

I just found this transcript via Lex Alexander’s blog.  To be honest I don’t have time to read the whole thing right now, but given this quote I feel compelled to make sure that I do later today.

Dad also held steadfastly to a posture that would
seem quite foreign in our day, and which was a bit enigmatic even then. He argued that paying taxes was a great privilege of our national democracy, for it helped us to undergird the common good. Dozens of times during my childhood I heard him say: “It
is no burden for us to sacrifice for the sake of others
less fortunate than ourselves. It is our responsibility.”  It was, he argued, the obligation of people and governments
to take care of those who were in need. “It is no burden to sacrifice for the sake of others,” he said. “No burden to sacrifice.”


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