“The middle class is the economic engine. It’s fair. They deserve the tax breaks, not the super wealthy who are doing pretty well. They don’t need any more tax breaks.â€â€“Joe Biden
I’m working the same number of hours and earning less than a business owner because the demands on his skills are higher than the demands on mine, so that means, according to the laws of “fairness,” that his wealth should be redistributed to me. I have less than he does, therefore, I need what he has. My rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness need to be upheld even at the expense of his own. Economic equality must be achieved among the masses.
Unfortunately, though, this is far from being a watertight plan, as Bret points out, since all wealth will eventually dry up when you continue to spread it around by giving tax breaks to those who have less, and taxing those who have more. The incentive to work has been removed by the equalization imposed by the government on those who have more capital.
Ludwig Von Mises points out that, “Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what the thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing; it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created… each step leading toward Socialism must exhaust itself in the destruction of what really exists.” (quote taken from David Chilton’s Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulation, p. 174)
God has lovingly designed this earth so that we reap what we sow, physically and metaphysically. Yes, God blesses us with gifts in abundance, but the gifts that He bestows on a lazy man and a diligent man, a wise man and a fool, differ radically. Yet socialists and Christians alike ignore the fact that “God makes both poor and rich.” (1 Samuel 2:7) If men desire to improve their economic conditions they must “submit themselves to Him, work hard, and call upon Him for blessing.” (David Chilton’s Productive Christians, p. 173)
“Thou shalt not steal,” and “Thou shalt not covet” apply to the collective will of individuals called government, too. Federal government is not above God’s law, God’s law is above it.
Anna
