From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs: them's radical words, of course. But I always thought they were just, right, and what we need to build a society on.
The current discussion about taxes in the US and in Canada goes completely counter to this. How could anyone have a need for $39 million (even over two years, which is what The New York Times today reports Mitt Romney as declaring)? For that matter, how could anyone's abilities earn them $45 million, unless he or she had really accomplished something à la Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?
Perhaps it's time for all those eager Christians to ask themselves: what would Jesus do? I suspect he wouldn't have sat on all that money.
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Antonia Zerbisias of the Toronto Star has a good feature post on this:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1119005--capital-punishment-is-the-free-market-on-its-last-legs
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