Billionaire Tells Congress the Tax Code Is Unfair to Lower-Income Americans
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3869458&page=1
An honest rich man! On national news, no less! Jesus talked about these kinds of people as being extremely rare in Matthew 19:23-26:
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (KJV)
Do you think you’ll ever hear about someone like this again? And regardless of your political persuasion this IS a commentary on the current political situation. It seems to me that the American people, particularly those of faith, have a very difficult decision this election.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” – attributed to Edward Burke
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Barack Obama and Greed « DanielSmithDesigns Weblog // October 29, 2008 at 9:48 am
[...] I don’t know about you, but I make under 40k a year. My wife makes a little less. And we’re hurting bad. We barely make enough to pay minimum payments on our bills. The recent spike in gas prices left us nothing extra for our newborn daughter. We’re even attending graduate school right now so that 1) my wife can keep her job (the degree is a job requirement), 2) we can make more money (as teachers we will each get an approximate 10% pay increase), and 3) our existing college loans will remain in forbearance until we finish our schooling. While some of our debt is our fault, some of it is not and we’re being penalized by our debtors for making and having less money – specifically credit cards and Bank of bleeding America. It’s simply not right to tax us more than people in a higher tax bracket who make more and can live on less. We have less to work with and can barely make ends meet. That’s unjust and even Warren Buffet says so. [...]