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Letter: Tax plan is not very Christian

By Chris Langlois, Vancouver
Published: December 8, 2017, 6:00am

What would Jesus do? I’m sure he would join with President Trump and the Republicans to reinstate Judeo-Christian values as exemplified in their new tax bill.

Jesus would certainly be in favor of leaving 13 million people without health care coverage and raising coverage costs for almost everyone else by double digits, taking away the child tax credit from over 3 million children (Christ never thought much of them; just read the New Testament), giving 53 percent of the total tax cuts in 2018 to the richest 1 percent (Jesus was a huge fan of the wealthy), repealing tax deductions for teachers buying school supplies but allowing corporations to deduct business expenses, and hurting middle-class families, people with student loans, and residents of states and cities with high local and state taxes.

Hanging out with the wealthy and dumping on poor children? Yes, that is the Jesus in the Bible.

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