Is it immoral to make a certain amount or have a certain amount of wealth?

[hunter]

54. It is absolutely "Jesus based"

The wealthy people of my utopia continue to exist in great comfort, they simply pay taxes at a rate that prevents them from becoming sinfully wealthy. The money changers are cast out of the temple.

Thomas Aquinas wrote "...it is a sin directly against one's neighbor, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them... it is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, inasmuch as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things."

When the very least among us are provided for -- healthy communities, safe shelter, good food, schools, and medical care -- only then does great wealth lose it's evil stench.

Capitalism is a wonderful engine for creating wealth, but it is an unethical system when the wealth created is hoarded by a few at the expense of the communities laboring, or whose natural resources are destroyed, in the creation of this wealth.

I'm not saying tax-dodging billionaires like Mitt Romney or the Koch brothers are going to hell, instead I believe anyone who is unable to live a simple life and share their wealth with the less fortunate, people who see every last dollar they've sucked into their hoard as a means of controlling others, of controlling the political system, or of getting what they want, I'm saying people like that are already living in hell.