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“Tax Freedom Day” will soon be here. As the Tax Project website explains, this is the day when you have earned enough to pay your combined federal, state, and local tax contributions for the year. For the rest of the year, you can finally begin working for and paying yourself. On one hand, I’m grateful for the benefits of the taxes I pay. On the other hand, it feels liberating to think that everything I earn from this point forward is mine to do with as I wish. These two “hands” go together. We have the freedoms we experience in America in significant part because we pay for them by supporting the governmental agencies who do for us what we would otherwise have to do for ourselves. I believe this capitalistic mindset to be the greatest single impediment to spiritual awakening in the Western world.

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