Pope Praises Taxation: Important Tool for ‘Wealth Redistribution’ – IOTW Report

Pope Praises Taxation: Important Tool for ‘Wealth Redistribution’

Neon Nettle: Pope Francis praised Italy’s internal revenue service Monday for the “work” they do in the “redistribution of wealth.”

The Pontiff said that modern tax collectors are often viewed with suspicion, like in they were in the times of Jesus.

The Pope argued that tax collectors provided an essential service to the common good by redistributing wealth.

“A certain culture of suspicion can, unfortunately, extend to those who enforce the laws,” Francis said.

“Yet this is a fundamental task because legality protects everyone and is a guarantee of equality.”

“Laws make it possible to maintain a principle of fairness where the logic of interests generates inequalities,” he added. more

21 Comments on Pope Praises Taxation: Important Tool for ‘Wealth Redistribution’

  1. …because it’s always “fair” to forcibly extract the fruits of a man’s labor and give it to someone who didn’t do the work.

    …there’s a name for it when you don’t own your own labor and you are forced to work for the benefit of someone else against your will.

    Slavery.

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  2. Another data point exposing this “Pope” as a Communist.
    Suuuuure, he’s good with the “tax collectors” distributing everyone else’s wealth.
    How loudly would he squeal if those same tax collectors, under those same laws (only SLIGHTLY modified to now include churches and property), were to come to the Vatican and ALL the cathedrals, and collect taxes from the wealth stored therein, to re-distribute? (can you imagine the $$$$ from the wealth stored in the Vatican?) Why, the Pope might have to have a “garage sale” to raise the money to pay the tax bill.

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  3. See……. I pretty sure you people read my posts an account of the thumbs up I get on other threads.

    Your thinking seems to be “what we should do is, not give this Burr character a thumbs up whenever he makes some sort of…some sort of joke. That way he’ll know we don’t approve.”

    Well. I don’t know what to tell ya’. That would be a wildly inaccurate assessment of what makes me laugh. You’re way off.

    It’s like there’s something wrong with one of us. But it doesn’t seem to matter which of us is right. Cuz’ I’m havin’ a hell of a time.

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  4. Comrade Pope Red Francis has never tried to hide his Marxist bone-fides. He wears them on his sleeve as a badge of honour. He comes from the Liberation Theology branch of the Jesuits and has always been enamored of socialist revolution. Unlike Father Ratzinger before him, he has alienated many of the church faithful. It’s almost like he has made his mission the destruction of the Catholic Church.

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