“From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.”
Obama has been clear as to how the wealthy will give back. We are not talking about philanthropists like John D. Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie or Henry Ford or Bill and Melinda Gates. We are talking about a tax rate which hit 90% under a big-government party - Democrats. The person who is given/entrusted much pays to the government, and the government requires much and asks all the more and distributes the wealth as it sees fit. Politicians usually distribute the wealth to those who support them and will vote for them. This is not considered bribery.
Karl Marx said: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." He also saw the government [elitists at the Politburo] as the vehicle instead of the philanthropist. The Bible also says in 2 Thess 3:10b:
“if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.”
The context is Christians who were leading unproductive lives. If unproductive Christians were not to receive charity, what about unproductive unbelievers? The correct place for charity is: "Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress." Jesus said, “ For you always have the poor with you”. This was to those who thought doing good deeds was more important than being with and worshiping God incarnate.
If we realize that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”, Jeremiah 17:9, then any requests for charity should be fulfilled with much prayer. It is obvious that this is not a consideration in Washington DC.
