Catholic arguments against Universal Basic Income

[LeafByNiggle]

You sad he was a good person. I just pointed out what being a good person entails. I did not say it was the only lesson to be drawn from that story.

It seems to be the only lesson you will allow. How about the lesson that the rich man had a duty to take care of Lazarus? Where does that lesson rank with your interpretation?

 

[JonNC]

It seems to be the only lesson you will allow. How about the lesson that the rich man had a duty to take care of Lazarus? Where does that lesson rank with your interpretation?

Yours is my take from the story. We each, of our own free will, and guided by the Spirit, have a duty to care for our neighbors.

Matthew 22:
Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law? 37Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. 38This is the greatest and the first commandment. 39And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.
Jon

 

[starshiptrooper]

It seems to be the only lesson you will allow. How about the lesson that the rich man had a duty to take care of Lazarus? Where does that lesson rank with your interpretation?

Somewhere below the 7th and 10th Commandments but above “Give your money to the Romans and have them set a massive inefficient and ineffective welfare state.” (Things Jesus never said)

 

[stinkcat_14]

Somewhere below the 7th and 10th Commandments but above “Give your money to the Romans and have them set a massive inefficient and ineffective welfare state.” (Things Jesus never said)

He never said you couldn’t either.

 

[starshiptrooper]

He never said you couldn’t either.

That was covered in “Thou shalt not steal.”

 

[LeafByNiggle]

That was covered in “Thou shalt not steal.”

Taxes are not theft. The authority of a government to levy taxes is well established in Catholic doctrine. And there is nothing in Catholic doctrine that prohibits government from using their funding to help those in need.

 

[stinkcat_14]

That was covered in “Thou shalt not steal.”

He never said taxation was theft. Neither has the Church.

 

[Rau]

Taxes are not theft. The authority of a government to levy taxes is well established in Catholic doctrine. And there is nothing in Catholic doctrine that prohibits government from using their funding to help those in need.

More than that…by and large, the people want government to deliver these kinds of services. Not every single individual, but “by and large”.

 

[PassingSoul]

I don’t dismiss the question is it not more humane to hand a Poverty Assistance Check from a Compasionate person to a person of Need versus that person receiving a government check from a Mailbox. A person in poverty is like a Tennis Ball being hit from the Left and then from the Right. The problem we have is both political parties wants to control ownership of poverty to control votes. Progressives don’t trust Conservatives and Consevatives don’t trust Progressives. There is a way independent of government to do this but it would take compromises from both Consevatives and Progressives. Compromise is a lost art so it would be a waste of time for me to explain it.