Quoted from Box A Rox

"Marxist ideology is wrong. But in my life I have known many Marxists who are
good people, so I don't feel offended."

-- Pope Francis, responding to conservatives who say he's a Marxist.

Quoted from Henry

Being blinded by money isn't just a rich thing which he makes it out to be, many rich people
donate time and money to help the less fortunate but for some reason people don't want to
hear that.

Quoted from Henry

Being blinded by money isn't just a rich thing which he makes it out to be, many rich people
donate time and money to help the less fortunate but for some reason people don't want to
hear that.

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The wealthiest Americans have avoided paying about $100 billion in taxes through a loophole
that essentially makes estate taxes voluntary, according to the attorney who devised the
legal maneuver.

Under current law, the wealthy must pay taxes on estates valued at more than $5.25 million
for an individual or $10.5 million for couples, with the top rate capped at 40 percent.

But many billionaires get around these taxes by shuffling their company’s stock in and out of
trusts, which allows them to give away millions of dollars to their heirs while avoiding taxes
on gifts valued at more than $14,000.

For example, the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has given at least $7.9 billion to his heirs
and avoided about $2.8 billion in gift taxes since 2010, according to filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.

Hundreds of executives have used the same strategy, and Richard Covey, the attorney who
pioneered the technique, said it has cost the federal government about one third of all estate
and gift taxes collected since 2000.

According to the Tax Policy Center, only about 3,780 households — about 0.14 percent of all
estates — will owe any estate taxes this year, averaging about $3.8 million on estates worth
$22.7 million, which is an effective rate of 16.6 percent.

Quoted from Box A Rox

When ever the national debt is mentioned, no one blames the one group not paying 'their fair
share', the super wealthy!

Quoted from CICERO

I guess the same can be said for the person that buys a Mercades and goes $100k in debt to buy it, then loses their job.  Blame the employer, not the person buying the item on credit.  The national debt is worse, because the politicians  run up the debt knowing people aren't paying their "fair share", then punishing 300 million people by strapping them and their children with the debt.
  

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Republicans (and some on this board) claim that caring for poor is best left to the churches
and to ‘Christian charity,’ not the government.
They also claim that debt is a sin. Given these claims, it might just blow your mind to learn
that according to Church Finance Today, “68% of churches in the West-South Central U.S.,
and 64% of churches in the East-South Central U.S. have expenses exceeding income.”
What’s worse, according to the same source, “these are the best regions in the country.”

Republicans want us to believe that Christian charity is sufficient for taking care of the poor.
Yet it’s obvious from these figures that Christians aren’t even able to handle taking care of
their own churches.

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Republicans (and some on this board) claim that caring for poor is best left to the churches
and to ‘Christian charity,’ not the government.
They also claim that debt is a sin. Given these claims, it might just blow your mind to learn
that according to Church Finance Today, “68% of churches in the West-South Central U.S.,
and 64% of churches in the East-South Central U.S. have expenses exceeding income.”
What’s worse, according to the same source, “these are the best regions in the country.”

Republicans want us to believe that Christian charity is sufficient for taking care of the poor.
Yet it’s obvious from these figures that Christians aren’t even able to handle taking care of
their own churches.

Quoted from CICERO

Yes, mind blowing!  Many churches which are entirely dependent on voluntary donations run a negative balance sheet.  And a government taxing by force and collecting with armed agents and jailing those who don't pay, run up a $17 trillion debt.

Imagine how much better church finances would be if the clergy could hold a gun to their parishioners heads when they send the collection basket around.

Quoted from Box A Rox

LMAO!  Cissy...
It's called 'convoluted logic.  You embrace it like a brother!

Quoted from Box A Rox

Republicans (and some on this board) claim that caring for poor is best left to the churches
and to ‘Christian charity,’ not the government.
Republicans want us to believe that Christian charity is sufficient for taking care of the poor.
Yet it’s obvious from these figures that Christians aren’t even able to handle taking care of
their own churches.

Quoted from CICERO

LMAO! Box...
Your post is called a ridiculous non sequitur.  Comparing church operating debt to government operating
debt and relating it to helping the poor.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Cicero's Latest Straw Man:
"Comparing church operating debt to government operating debt"

Quoted from Box A Rox

Republicans (and some on this board) claim that caring for poor is best left to the churches
and to ‘Christian charity,’ not the government.
They also claim that debt is a sin. Given these claims, it might just blow your mind...

Republicans want us to believe that Christian charity is sufficient for taking care of the poor.
Yet it’s obvious from these figures that Christians aren’t even able to handle taking care of
their own churches.