I was intrigued with Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins University Dr. Ben Carson’s perspective on tithing and our tax system during his recent address at the National Prayer Breakfast. The reason that tithing is such a fair way to tax people is because it’s proportional.  As soon as you move away from proportional taxing, ideology takes over.  As a result, ideology is, quite frankly, arbitrary and depends upon the flavor of the month.

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