Willingness to "Impose Catholic Beliefs" Apparently Just a Matter of Priorities for Sen. Biden

Sen. Biden claims that higher taxes are not just a patriotic duty, but also his duty as a Catholic to impose:

Fired up in a room full of union members, Joe Biden angrily defended both his ticket’s tax plan and his own claim that tax hikes for the rich are patriotic, while urging fellow Democrats to stand their ground on what he said was a values debate.

Biden, speaking to members of the Laborers International Union of North America, began by saying that there is “no disagreement” between John McCain and Barack Obama on the need for tax cuts. The real issue, he said, is who gets them.

“Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,” [ED.: Apparently, they didn't teach you that this includes the unborn.] he said. “Now it’d be different if you could make the case to me that by giving this tax cut to the very wealthy, everybody else was going to be better off. We saw what happened the last eight years when we gave that tax cut.”

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So, let me get this straight. Sen. Biden, who has repeatedly stated his reluctance to "impose his Catholic beliefs" on others when it comes to protecting the unborn, appears to have no qualms about invoking his Catholic faith to justify his desire to confiscate other people's money to enrich the government coffers. Nice priorities you got there, Sen. Biden.

Never mind that Catholic social teaching says next to nothing about tax policy (as opposed to, say, stressing the duty of politicians to work to restrict abortion). And never mind that, if Sen. Biden believes so strongly in taking care of people who need help the most, then his giving ALMOST NOTHING to charity certainly is a strange way of showing it.

Courtesy of Zach Brissett at In Toon with the World