The economic system that is compatible with God-given human nature, God-given natural rights, and the Biblical concept of justice, is free enterprise, market economy, and capitalism.
This economic system grants individuals freedom in their choices regarding consumption and production. Freedom protects the individual from coercion by the state, which is a necessary fact of socialism. Justice requires that man be free from state coercion in order to use his talents to God's glory, and with integrity to work and reap rewards. Further capitalism is based on private property, the legitimacy of which is affirmed in the Bible, and on encouragement of responsibility and just reward for work. Only a free economic system can provide this type of justice and protect men from coercion by other men.
I agree. In the story of the Good Samaritan, the Good Samaritan had money and a donkey. So he must have worked; he had possessions. He brought the injured man to a private business...an inn...and gave the innkeeper his own money to take care of the injured man. So yes, it would seem that Jesus approved of free enterprise, capitalism, etc.
That is almost true - but in the prophetic words of Bob Dylan, 'You've got to serve somebody'. America is only great when America is good. And that good comes from the voluntary service that comes from the heart of her citizens, and *not* from the dictates of her government. That has historically come from the Judeo-Christian Ethic that American thought necessarily begins with. Take that ethic away (which is exactly what is happening to us) and the whole thing must necessarily come tumbling down:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -John Adams
"We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." -James Madison "The Father of Our Constitution"