Kristof Wants Government To Improve Our Souls Via Income Redistribution

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelsteinn

[governsleastgovernsbest]

You might have thought that Mike Bloomberg—with his trans fat and smokes snatching—was the epitome of nanny staters. But the Big Apple mayor's got nothing on another New Yorker--Nicholas Kristof.

In his New York Times column of today, Equality, A True Soul Food, Kristof preaches the urgent need for income redistribution as a means of . . . improving our souls.

According to Kristof, "the toll of our stunning inequality is not just economic but also is a melancholy of the soul." And hey: what says soul improvement more than . . . raising taxes?!

More excerpts and analysis after the break.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Income redistribution will improve our souls: just ask Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. Ping to Today show list.

[cripplecreek]

“Collective salvation” is damnation of all who buy into it.

After all, why should anyone worry about their mortal soul if the government is doing it for them?

[backwoods-engineer]

Media commies like Kristof have declared themselves to be domestic enemies of the Constitution. Who will keep their oath to defend it?

[R0CK3T]

Sounds like he’s running for Chairman of the NY Politburo.

Maybe he should go and watch the movie “REDs”, then he can see how it all comes out before he makes any rash decisions.

[Aria]

He can start with sending me his money.

Yeah, right.

[Savage Beast]

Kristof's stunning (and harebrined) "melancholy of the soul" will become melancholy of the soul and everything else when the Left succeeds in reducing everybody to poverty.

[Savage Beast]

That is: everybody except Democrat politicians and their henchpersons.

[kenmcg]

It’s time re-education for these liberal anti American treasonists.

[Mouton]

I don’t have much money to redistribute but I do have some ammo that I would share with anyone who tries to redistribute my meager income.

[BenLurkin]

May the bird of paradise fly up his nose.

[FrankR]

Well, kristoff can kiss off...what this country needs is a redistribution of WORK ETHIC, not income.

Kissoff, if you want to improve you soul, go to church...but my money won't do it for you.

Besides, no one "distributed" income to any of us who work, we worked for it...so REdistribution is an incorrect term.

[johniegrad]

What is particularly disingenuous about people like this is the intentional distortion of the Christian message concerning true charity. Government intrusion and power grabbing through the tax system impairs the charity that the individual can engage in. First, there is less available to give when it is confiscated. Second, the mechanism for it’s use is markedly inferior and more expensive. Third, it detaches the giver from the act of charity itself and prevents gratitude on the part of the receiver. Finally, and this may be the most important, it can never be truly charitable since it doesn’t flow first from the love of God. Excessive taxation and redistribution is a sin against charity and only serves the individual doing the confiscation.

[F.J. Mitchell]

The socialists are coming out of the closet. Damn ‘em!!

[Mr. K]

Sometimes you can just see the stupidity in liberals’ eyes...

[HangnJudge]

Giving, Kindness, and Acts of Love are
By definition, Acts of Free Will

They cannot be Compelled or they become
Thievery and Enslavement

Government is Empowered to
Compel, Take, Punish, and Kill

By definition, Government Acts do NOT cause
Giving, Kindness, and Acts of Love

This man is Confused, Deluded, or Satanic

[KosmicKitty]

How much of HIS income has he re-distributed??

My bet, his charitable donations fall below 1% of his gross income.

[SpaceBar]

Don’t visit the wikipedia page of Nicholas Kristof unless you want to vomit over this ego inflated self-important “journalist”. Red diaper baby poster boy if there ever was one.

[HangnJudge]

it can never be truly charitable
since it doesn’t flow first from the Love of God

Bingo

[hosepipe]

New Yorkers have the government(S) they want and deserve..
NY gov't is only as corrupt as New Yorkers are..
ELSE they would change it..

Same with most all NorthEast States..
Oh! and middle America and the West coast too..