Posted on 02/10/2020 3:24:44 AM PST by servo1969
Pope Francis has called tax cuts for the wealthy a 'structure of sin' before telling a conference at the Vatican the 'rich world can and must end poverty'.
At a seminar on economic inclusion hosted by the Church on Wednesday, Francis insisted that poverty could be beaten if the world's rich play a full part in ending inequality.
'Todays structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development,' Francis told the meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences.
'We are neither condemned to inequality nor to paralysis in the face of injustice,' he later added.
'The rich world and a prosperous economy can and must end poverty.'
The Pope told attendants, including IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, that hundreds of billions of dollars of taxes are not being paid, causing health care and education to suffer.
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The poor will always be with us. Get over it, false Pope.
the ‘rich world can and must end poverty’
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After you frankie
As a Catholic I say f... Pope Frankie and his communist ways.
Eff right off, Poop Frank. You have zero authority and even less brains.
Guacamolean Marxist POS
sell the Vatican, feed the poor
Poverty is ended through capitalism. The creation of new wealth requires capital investment.
Just what I’m saying. I’m not a Bible
scholar but Jesus did say that.
There’s a difference between the biblical commandment to give to the poor and godless state agents stealing
from the rich but use it to oppress
the poor. And control the masses.
That’s demonic.
We ARE Ending Poverty. Global Extreme Poverty has dropped to 10%.
When I was a boy, it was at 60%!!
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And that was done with hard work, research, investment and rewarding those who are successful, not redistribution.
The rich have been doing a much better job eliminating poverty than the Pope has been doing eliminating pederasty among priests.
I was educated by Jesuits and I will always be grateful to them for teaching me how to think (and how to drink) but the man is delusional, an idiot, or both.
says the rich man that pays no taxes......
I am afraid that as a liberal his mind has been affected. Pray for him and for the Church.
Hard to take the Pope seriously while there are gold faucets in the Vatican’s bathroom.
Doesn’t the Vatican control a shit load of money? Let them fix poverty
that is perfect.
“The Rich can end Poverty”, Pope Francis says.
Christ said “The poor ye will always have with you”.
The Rich cannot end poverty, because poverty isn’t a set point. Poverty will be proclaimed by those that have one less thing than someone else. There will always be poor, because life isn’t fair, or equal.
Socialism isn’t in the bible. Socialism is of this world, not the next.
Ah but the Vatican banking scandals and no doubt ongoing corruption there are flies in the ointment as far as that goes. Lots of wealth and power to be had in the hierarchy there.
Shut up, Francis, I didnt vote for you.
*(Catholic Church is the largest and topmost Christian organization which has an estimated wealth of more than $30 billion.)
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