The Tax Expenditure Which Dares Not Speak Its Name

One topic of frequent exhortation on taxes among progressive policy wonkeries, such as the Tax Policy Center, are tax expenditures, or internal revenue code provisions which reduce tax revenues below what they would otherwise be.

Primitive Christianity

I happened across this passage in my recent reading and, while it is well-known, the events of Fifth Century Alexandria bring to mind recent events in the history of another major Abrahamic religion and it bears quoting: