Originally posted by jmoz
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and the free-market is never totalitarian......the more you labor the more wealth you produce.....nothing totalitarian in that concept....yeah...some people become very wealthy.....but having wealth is not in and of itself intrinsically evil as long as they came by it honestly...either by working for it or by inheriting it from people who worked for it honestly (i.e., stolen wealth would be very wrong to possess).....and the only thing we have the right to do in terms of a nation based on civil liberties is strongly ENCOURAGE, not DEMAND, that if a person is able to financially, to help the needy. Yeah most religions treat giving to the poor as a moral obligation, but again an obligation you only need to fulfill if you are in a fiscal position to do so....and while one may not have financial wealth they may have a wealth of time and/or talent....which are also good tolls in helping the needy.....it's why the biggest donors financially tend to be church-goers....but because of the prevailing notion that the needy don't deserve help, but a livelihood handed to them on a silver platter, the government confiscates more and more of what wealth we produce...leaving such church-going people with less and less in their pockets for charitable endeavors
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