But the Republicans also said they viewed the tax as inherently unfair and even immoral, no matter who pays it.
They may soft-pedal that view in public — in last year's elections, they even managed to pose as defenders of Medicare — but, in private, they view the welfare state as immoral, a matter of forcing citizens at gunpoint to hand their money over to other people.
"They're considered disposable, and that's immoral". No matter what people called him, Okawa is proud of the work he performed for his nation's nuclear industry.
Putting whole populations – the whole human species – under continuous, total surveillance is a profoundly immoral act, no matter whether it works or not.
The decision of the U.S. government was determined by lawyer Michael Engel, who ruled: "Registration is refused because the proposed mark consists of or comprises immoral or scandalous matter.
The Bush administration's logic used to support torture means by extension that any illegal or immoral action, no matter how heinous, can be justified if such actions "work".
"Registration is refused because the applied-for mark consists of or includes immoral or scandalous matter," the office replied, declining Comfyballs' application because of its use of, well, balls in its name.
Even though all of the members of his band are Asian-American, Tam was told he was being racist and violating the part of the Lanham Act that prevents people from trademarking "immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter; or matter which may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute".
Section 2(a), 15 USC §1052(a) disallows requests for marks that have "immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter".
When the name was sent to the Florida Department of State Divisions of Corporations, it was denied because "the mark consists of, compromises or includes immoral, deceptive or scandalous matter".
The controversy has not ended, and experts today are still hashing out what, if anything, Milgram demonstrated about the dark side of human nature: our putative propensity to blindly acquiesce to authority-directed courses of action, no matter how immoral.
