till inflation / scarcity occurs till hunger then we do depart !!!
Jesus didn't go to Caesar, tell him to increase taxes, and then distribute that money to the poor. He encouraged the wealthy to make donations from their own heart to help the poor.
Not sure why that distinction is so often overlooked.
No because it will never be enough money.
That we have to explain why this is not a good thing is the most worrisome. When I grew up it was not worthy of discussion.............................
That we have to explain why this is not a good thing is the most worrisome. When I grew up it was not worthy of discussion.............................
No because money does not grow on trees.
Hence, no difference in one's level of comfort or sustenance.
Except the taxpayer, which gets dinged for more.
Rhetorical question about the Christian faith: does everyone automatically receive salvation without doing anything?
“Is universal basic income a biblical solution to poverty?”
No....incarceration is.
If it goes in one person’s pocket who didn’t earn it, it has to come out of another person’s pocket who did.
Free birth control pills oh my .... we gonna party now oh my
THE POOR YOU WILL HAVE ALWAYS
Is Universal Basic Income supposed to replace all of our public assistance programs?
Or would UBI income be over and above, and in addition to, all of the public benefits people already receive???
As if EIC (Earned Income Credit) wasn’t bad enough.
Those of us who have succeeded have a duty and responsibility to help those of us “behind us” to also succeed or at least survive but this requires two preconditions - they have to want the help (you can’t force it upon them)and they have to show that they’re willing to contribute back in the same way.
Socialism breaks both of those preconditions - forcing help and letting those not willing to recontribute to suck off the work of others like the grasshoppers and the ants.
Socialism fails every time because those who slack off grow in number until the system is unsustainable - every time - which is why those nations grow despotic because they have to force the people into work like indentured servitude, except at THAT point the people are no longer skilled and resent the forced labor and resist further.
It’s basic human behavior.
Biblical answer to poverty....
Is you and me not government. And the goats who call Jesus ‘Lord’ will be cast into hell because they wouldn’t part with their hard earned money and help the least of these. This is the judgment of those in the church, sheep and goats.
Matt 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’
37“Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
41“Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
44“Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ 45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Ontario, Canada has already discovered the obvious problem. It’s unbelievable that isn’t readily apparent to everyone.
Thou shalt not steal.
Wealth is produced, not printed. The only place the government can get money is from people that produce it. It’s one thing to tax to fund government needs, it’s another to just take from me to give to somebody else through law. That’s just theft.
There will always be the poor.
The Christians are not the sharpest tools in the shed when they dabble in “socialism”. This universal income argument is completely ASININE.