Pope on taxes: A sign of equality, justice and legality
Source: AP
By NICOLE WINFIELD
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis encouraged tax collectors on Monday to keep working to redistribute wealth and fund social services that help the poor, saying their efforts are a “guarantee of equality” that helps the common good.
Francis met with members of Italy’s tax collection agency and recalled that the taxes they gather pay for Italy’s public health care system. Francis urged them to defend that, “because we shouldn’t fall into a health care system that you pay for, where the poor don’t have a right to anything.”
“One of the beautiful things that Italy has is this: Please keep it,” he said.
Francis noted that the taxman is often looked at with suspicion and scorn, but he said that, done well, taxation “is a sign of legality and justice.”
FILE - Pope Francis appears on a balcony of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, on July 11, 2021. Francis met with members of Italy’s tax collection agency and recalled that the taxes they gather pay for Italy’s public health care system. Francis urged them to defend that free health care “because we shouldn’t fall into a health care system that you pay for, where the poor don’t have a right to anything.”“One of the beautiful things that Italy has is this: please keep it,” he said. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
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Tax collectors collect taxes. It's someone else's job to determine where the money is spent.
But, nice sentiment.
I have visions of President Biden and VP Harris with bullwhips.......
KY....
