ImSpartacus2 wrote on Sep 12
th, 2014 at 5:44pm:
When I was a boy growing up in the 60s there was a logic that most people accepted that's simply not discussed anymore and I can't help feeling that its because the politicians and their greedy string pullers have worked industriously to take it off the discussion list. The logic went like this:-
The wealthier you are the more tax you should pay (esp if your wealth is inherited) because (i) you receive a far greater benefit from the society that makes your wealth possible and applying the basic principles of user pays, you owe more; (ii) The sacrifices that the wealthy few make to protect and serve the community from which they get their wealth is infinitesimal compared to the sacrifices made on a daily basis by the vastly more numerous majority in the community; and (iii) the wealthy have far more to lose then the rest of us if society collapsed.
I say this logic was commonly discussed when I was a boy but in truth its been around for millennia and seems only to have disappeared from the popular discourse in the last 30 years or so. I think its time it started to be openly discussed again.
Taxing the income of worker at 30%, but taxing the income of the rich at 90%, is inequitable.
It is akin to lawful stealing, imo.
It is TAKING
more of what the wealthy have, because they have it.
It is socialism and communism.
Steal from the wealthy [i.e. steal from those who have wealth
because they are resourceful and industrious], and distribute those resources and wealth [created by others], to the poor - because of their need.
And it is the exact same system that Sharia promotes and enforces.
Stealing with threats....
Christians in the Caliphate: The Islamic State (Part 4)
goto 6m 40shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQwTOsh__0Such a system, OF STEALING THE WEALTH OF OTHERS, has no real long-term beneficial effect in a society.
It produces dependency,
and a corrupt governance authority.
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God is a capitalist.Proof of that fact is 'littered' throughout the OT bible, and is revealed even in many of the parables of Jesus.
n.b.
Jesus
DID NOT say;
"Steal from the wealthy, and give to the poor."
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said........
go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.i
God does encourage us all, to be kind to the poor,
and to be generous to those who are worse off than ourselves.
But the Matthew 25:14 - 30 parable suggests, very directly, that God is
not a socialist.
And the parables which Jesus told, suggest, that God does not hold with socialist ideals [which is in fact thievery, as a means 'to help the poor'].
Is God a capitalist ?
Matthew 25:24
......he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Do Jesus parables suggest that God is a capitalist ?
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it......
p.s.
Yadda is not a wealthy person.
I am in a low tax bracket.
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