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Second, the more tax deductions the better so people can keep more of their own money to meet their own needs. But why stop at tax deductions for marriage and family counseling? The rabbi should call for the abolition of the income tax, which would allow middle income families to control the money earn to pay for the necessities of life, including any social services they need.

And finally, Rabbi Shumley has dressed up the neoconservatives’ egregious foreign policy under the guise of a universal human rights initiative. America is not the world’s policeman. The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to “spread democracy” and to right every wrong in the world. A moral and common sense foreign policy requires that the United States government not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and allow the American people to trade with other people around the world.

Nowhere on Rabbi Shumley’s website is there any acknowledgement about the causes of America’s ills, crony capitalism, the Federal Reserve’s legalized counterfeiting, the culture of entitlement, the destruction of the people’s civil liberties and Washington’s counterproductive interventionist foreign policy.

Rabbi Shumley is an intelligent human being. It would behoove him to begin his general election campaign by immersing himself in the works of Bastiat, Hazlitt, Mises, Rothbard and other giants of the liberty movement at www.lewrockwell.com before he takes on the ultra-leftist Bill Pascrell.

The American people need to hear the truth, namely that the welfare-warfare state is a financial and moral disaster. And who could better deliver that message than a rabbi who represents one of the great traditions of western civilization, Judaism, the essence of which is the sanctity of the individual?

Murray Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College and blogs at www.MurraySabrin.com.