Posts Tagged ‘Archbishop of Canterbury’
The Archbishop Of Canterbury is wrong: higher taxes don’t make people happier
There was a time when to become the Archbishop of Canterbury one had to be a decent, if not good, religious philosopher. This clearly isn’t the case today as Justin Welby is a retired oil company executive among other things. And on current evidence not a good logician at all.
For he’s claiming that higher taxes will make us all happier. No, that’s really not the case at all:
Raising taxes will make people happier, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said at the launch of an IPPR report.
Speaking as the think-tank launched its report about finance and inequality on Wednesday, Archbishop Justin Welby said that prosperity was driven by wellbeing as well as income.
He suggested that higher taxes could fund the improvement of the environment and culture, which could improve overall happiness.
That’s an absolutely vital point being missed here.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for a fundamental rethink of how the economy works, including more public spending and higher taxes on technology giants and the wealthy.
In an interview with the BBC to mark the launch of a major report by the Commission on Economic Justice, of which he is a leading member, Archbishop Justin Welby said the present economy was “unjust”.
It is possible that a larger state will make us happier, that more government spending, more of the economy being disposed of by government, will make us happier. I think it’s unlikely, you might think it’s a great idea or not, but that’s not the same as saying that more tax will make us happier.
As it happens the taxation level is the highest, as a portion of the economy, that it has been for 49 years. If it were true that more taxes will make us happier you might think we’d have voted for them by now. But even that’s just an observation, not a failure of logic.
Taxes are, of course, the cost of gaining all those other lovely things. And we all prefer to have lower costs even while we’ll also argue for greater benefits. That’s why it’s always a shout for them over there to be taxed to pay for something nice for me over here, isn’t it? Further, we’ve even proof. Do all people pay all the taxes they should do because that makes them happier?
Err, no, there’s tax evasion and tax avoidance all over the place, isn’t there? Thus paying more tax doesn’t make us happier, does it? Given that at least some are willing to risk jail not to pay more tax we’d rather have to assume that more tax makes at least some people very unhappy indeed.
So, no, the Archbish fails basic logic, doesn’t he?
Christmas Is Spoiled By Opulence Says Archbishop Welby (Dressed In Golden Robes)
JUSTIN Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has said that people are making themselves “miserable” at Christmas and potentially damaging their relationships because of their penchant for buying expensive presents and leaving themselves skint.
The pressure of flashing it around apparently means that people are potentially putting the relationships of loved ones at risk FOREVER.
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The 105th Archbishop of Canterbury enthroned and picked apart by the Red Nose liberal elite
THE 105th Archbishop of Canterbury has been sat on the Diocesan Throne and the Cathedral Chair. At the Cathedral, the Christian child, played by Evangeline Kanagasooriam, answered his knock at the oak doors.
“Who are you and why do you request entry?”
“I am Justin, a servant of Jesus Christ, and I come as one seeking the grace of God, to travel with you in his service together.”
The Archbishop does not do balconies. His message is of One Nation togetherness.
I, Justin Portal Welby, do so affirm, and accordingly declare my belief in the faith which is revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the catholic creeds and to which the historic formularies of the Church of England bear witness; and in public prayer and administration of the sacraments, I will use only the forms of service which are authorised or allowed by Canon.
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Face of the day – The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter revival
FACE of the Day: The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu (left) baptises Edward Cooke, outside York Minster as part of the outdoor baptism service held on Easter Saturday.
That Archbishop of Canterbury job advert in full
FANCY working as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury? You get £55,560 a year. You get free accommodation in Lambeth Palace (zone 1 and 25 staff) and Canterbury. You get to debate every word you say as you say it – in real time. The competition will be fierce, with front runners tipped to be: Dawn French, Katie Price, Euan Blair, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Kim Kardashian, Paul Dacre, John Prescott and Eddie The Eagle Edwards.
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Daily Telegraph Uses Canadian Student’s Work To Attack Rowan Williams And Help David Cameron
IS the Daily Telegraph attacking, sorry, “revealing” Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury ,to make life easier for David Cameron? Williams wrote an article attacking Cameron’s coalition Government. A few days later and Williams is “revealed” in that paper to be a man with subversive views. He was once left-wing radical being watched by MI5. Only, that’s not quite it at all. Richard Bartholomew digs deeper:
At the weekend, the Daily Telegraph ran a lengthy non-story about Rowan Williams:
MI5 labelled the Archbishop of Canterbury a subversive over anti-Thatcher campaigns
When he launched a stinging attack on the Coalition government over policies “for which no one voted”, the Archbishop of Canterbury put himself squarely in the centre of a political storm.
Critics accused him of political bias, claiming it was a throwback to the days when his predecessors regularly clashed with past Conservative administrations.
But perhaps they should not be too surprised, as it can be revealed that the Archbishop has a long-standing left-wing political past.
The young Rowan Williams was once labelled ‘a subversive’ by a senior MI5 officer over his involvement with a group of Marxist, Trotskyite and socialist campaigners…
The group under discussion is the Jubilee Group; however, theTelegraph has hardly “revealed” the association – as the report goes to on acknowledge (much further down), Williams “edited a series of essays ‘Catholic and Radical’ for the group” with Kenneth Leech. The Jubilee Group is also discussed in sources such as Rupert Shortt’s biography of Williams.
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Archbishop Of Canterbury Williams Regrets Catholic Church Attracting All The Best Paedos
THE Archbishop of Canterbury realises that with Muslims all portrayed as mad mullahs and Catholics as paedophiles, the Church of England has been lagging behind. Where is the media coverage? Dr Rowan Williams toys with the idea of dying his beard black and placing a photo of Gary Glitter on the end of his staff.
And then he opens his mouth and says that thanks to the paedophile priests scandal, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland had lost “all credibility“. No longer would the leader of one religion think the priests of another religion credible. It’s tough stuff. Then Dr Rowan Williams make his next move.
He calls Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. He says he’s gonna order the invasion of Ireland and blow the Papist sodomisers to Beelzebub?
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