Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons: This isn’t just good policy or good politics, it’s also good Christian ethics. - NBCNewsTHINK
from August, some of the most popular provisions of Biden's Build Back Better plan among Christians included expanding Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing coverage ; raising wages for home care workers who help with older, injured and disabled patients ; and investing in clean energy infrastructure, like solar panels and wind turbines .
Too often, Christian politics gets reduced to abortion and same-sex marriage. This dynamic has always struck me as odd, since Jesus never talked about those topics. The Gospels do record him consistently, though. Drawing attention to Christian support for raising taxes and increased spending on social programs helps reorient our public discourse to the issues Jesus actually cared about.
“For years, tax-dodging corporations, the ultra-wealthy and an army of K Street lobbyists have rigged the tax code to keep the most privileged from paying their fair share of taxes,” Mary J. Novak, the executive director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice,. “Meanwhile, the chasm between low wage workers and the richest 1% has widened to heights that are unsustainable over the past decade — especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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