Spreading the Wealth

[sleigh]

Sarah Palin spoke in Cincinnati yesterday. She's dropped Ayers-the-terrorist from her stump attack against Obama, and has added in Joe-the-plumber with the 'horrifying' tag that Obama wants to "spread your wealth around" -- recited to a chorus of boos from the white-bread audience. This obviously plays well to the Republican base.

Which makes me wonder. The Republican base is largely conservative Christians, who are reputed to follow Jesus' example and teachings. Now, I don't have a dog in this theological fight; in fact, I don't think there's a dog at all. But...

Certainly Jesus wasn't against taxation ("Render unto Caesar" and all that). So given the two tax plans put forward by the candidates, I wonder which one Jesus would prefer: a tax plan that gives the largest tax decreases to the wealthiest people (McCain's plan); or the one that would give the largest tax decreases to the poorest people while asking the wealthy to shoulder more of the tax burden (Obama's plan)?

Comments

Re: Naming the Christians

[carolf.livejournal.com]

The problem I have with this is purely a personal one.

Long ago, I developed my own brand of shorthand, so I could get down the content of lectures. Not the understanding -- that came when I typed up and organized my notes.

Anyway, I used X for the obvious "ex" (..tend, ..port) but also for the "Christ" portion of Christian or any other Christ____ word. No, of course I didn't make it up -- I've lived with Xmas all my live.

I also used X to mean "cross" as in "x-seeding."

So, Xtian doesn't read Christian to me because "Christ" already has a t. So I read it as crosstian.

Which doesn't fit, either.

But, that's just my little idiosyncrasy. Go for it if it works.