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Slave ownership. Slaves are supposed to be happy being slaves.
uh.. WHAT? Yo mean like the slaves that the Pharaoh had? How the hell does this validate capitalism in the bible?
"Pharaoh! Let my HAPPY people go!"
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Slave ownership. Slaves are supposed to be happy being slaves.
"Thou shalt not steal."
"The man that does not work shall not eat."
And giving away your possessions because you want to follow Christ is a little different from forcing people to distribute their wealth or get dragged into a tiny hovel and gunned down with their family and servants.
Hehe.
I would rep you, but I've already given out my allotted 5 or 6 or whatever the paltry allottment is....
Because it supports class distinction.
And you'll note, the Hebrew slaves did not revolt. They were turned loose.
Still doesn't support socialism. Because the distribution must be personal and individual.
Actually, it is what he said. He told individuals to distribute their wealth. He didn't tell them to have armies take it.
riiiiiiiiight... when JESUS says to go sell everything and give it to the poor.. thats just a suggestion to get fair market price after a 10% markup profit.
you spiritually weak bastards sure are funny.
New Testament, dear.
Kindly explain how maintaining a slave class, and refusing to rebel, supports your Commie Bible theory.
It is a suggestion. Please show me where he advised people how they should vote or run a government?
Is it your day off, Shogun? Are you partaking of the weed and grape?
I'll stand by for your idiotic self-congragulatory hooting that you've won an argument I never entered into, now.
Oh, wait, you already did that.
Well good, we got it over. You derailed the thread with your ridiculous off-topic tirade, so you accomplished what you set out to do. What the hell was the thread about, anyway?
Hmm... did she?
I hadn't heard that... Now I know that she held oil companies to their long term agreements; agreements which were made decades ago, where they AGREED to pay royalties to the state of Alaska and that those royalties were, as was required by Alaska's constitution to be broken out amongst every citizen of Alaska... and which has been executed since the first oil company hit oil way back when.
But as I said, that is old news and I'm sure you're aware of it and that you're bringing us new information here. So if you could just post the evidence that Governor Palin EO'd a 'windfall profits tax' on big oil... we can go ahead and discuss it.
Palin Boosted Oil-Company Taxes While Alaska Had Budget Surplus
By Alison Fitzgerald
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who has joined the Republican national ticket as a tax-cutter, was a driving force in raising a tax on oil companies last year that will help swell the state's budget surplus...
Palin, 44, proposed the tax increase Sept. 4, 2007, and called a special legislative session to pass it...
Palin's oil tax is similar to the windfall profits tax proposed by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. McCain, 72, has criticized Obama's plan...
Under Palin's plan, called ``Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share,'' oil company profits are taxed at a 25 percent base rate, up from the previous 22.5 percent. When the price rises to $30 over cost, or about $52 a barrel, the tax rate rises 0.2 percent for each dollar.
Oil companies weren't happy with the plan when it passed.
``This massive tax increase will weaken investment in Alaska's oilfields at the very time that more investment is needed,'' Doug Suttles, president of BP Exploration Alaska Inc., said in a Dec. 27 e-mailed statement. ``We will now review all our planned activities.''