Legal Opinion
Denlinger v. Brennan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 1996No. 94-3789PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s” (Matthew 22:21) does not figure prominently in the theology of the Church of St. Matthew. Its members are similarly unimpressed by Justice Holmes’s observation that “[tjaxes are what we pay for civilized society.” Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. CIR, 275 U.S. 87, 100, 48 S.Ct. 100, 105, 72 L.Ed. 177 (1927) (dissenting opinion). Perhaps they think the latter proposition falsified by the tenfold increase in tax rates since Holmes’s day, without a corresponding improvement in the level of civilization. The…
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