The September “issue” of the Jounal of Lutheran Ethics is now up, with a special focus on taxes, wealth, and poverty
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal
One response to “God and the taxman”
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So close, yet so far away. They very nearly got it.
In the section on common/private property (“To whom does wealth belog”) they failed to consider the case of a Managed Commons. We do not need to decide between Private Property on the one hand and a free-for-all Commons on the other. Rather, we could, for instance, set up a Trust that manages a common and leases out rights of use up to the sustainable limit – with the proceeds being returned equally to all the citizens within proximity to the commons.
Such a system would solve all the problems inherent in both the Private Property system and the Common Property system.
A Thinking Reed 
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