DD Support Board and Research Team

[shajandr]

Equal before the law means the law/government cannot treat us differently than other humans within the jurisdiction.

I agree that is the intended meaning of the phrase "created equal" in the DOI.

Which is why things like affirmative action by governmental entities is as abhorrent as Jim Crow laws.

Which is why a person who earns $400 million (say all of it from overseas sales and the person lives overseas butt are a US citizen) should nott have to pay 41 percent of his income to the US government whereas another citizen pays nothing or in fact getts paid a negative income tax (EITC). THAT is unequal treatment.

Leftists misunderstand that that phrase in the DOI does nott mean the government will impose "equality of outcome". No serious scholar of Jefferson can contend that with a straight face.