They think of it as murder on a massive scale because of their religious beliefs.
I am willing to entertain the idea that everyone get a religious or moral veto on government expenditure of their tax monies.
I knew a man, an absolutist pacifist, so convinced that all war was murder, pure murder, that he lived in poverty all his adult life because he refused to earn enough to be taxed on it. He subsisted, and donated his life to "the movement" and other socially useful activities. He was imprisoned many times for nonviolent resistance to many forms of what he saw as evil. War, racial segregation, conscription, the collection of taxes to pay for war.
If he'd earned money, he'd have had pay taxes, so he lived a life on the margin. He was thin.
Since nobody cared that he was a pacifist, or cares that hundreds of thousands of other pacifists (and of others with ethical objections to individual government expenditures) object to paying taxes, why should they care that anti-choice people do?
This is a facetious suggestion: Let them keep their incomes down below taxable level. That will show they are as sincere in their moral conviction as this pacifist was in his.
Again: Nobody's made clear to me why one and only one group gets to 'scuse itself, and everybody else, from taxation for what they don't like. |
