If being rich means I won't get into heaven, then baby I'm stayin here on earth!!!!

Riches ~ Gorgeous lighting of Melanin

Proverbs 22:4 (ESV) - The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

Plus l’homme s’enrichit, plus la terre s’appauvrit…

V. H. SCORP

10 billionaires who went from riches to rags 😳

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

Walt Whitman, in the Preface to Leaves of Grass

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ANECDOTE | Pain de l’Égalité décrété sous la Terreur ➽ https://bit.ly/Pain-Egalite En novembre 1793, les représentants du peuple en mission prenaient un arrêté fixant que « la richesse et la pauvreté devant également disparaître du régime de l’égalité, il ne sera plus composé un pain de fleur de farine pour le riche et un pain de son pour le pauvre », et que « tous les boulangers seront tenus, sous peine d’incarcération, de faire une seule et bonne espèce de pain, le pain de l’égalité »

Paul Forman

Wonderland

Photography by Vicky Grout

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

Proverbs 23:5

οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν ἔπαλξις πλούτου πρὸς κόρον ἀνδρὶ λακτίσαντι μέγαν Δίκας βωμὸν εἰς ἀφάνειαν*

- Aeschylus

Riches are no defence for a man who has insolently trampled underfoot the altar of Justice until it disappears.*

Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock. The main instigator behind the ESG fad with his much derided annual ‘CEO’s Letter.’

Romans 2:4 (NKJV) - Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse. — Vivienne Westwood

ITS OFFICIAL

"No wealth tax under Labour, Rachel Reeves" (Telegraph: 25/08/23)

The Labour Party will not increase taxes on the rich

The Labour Party will not increase taxes on the wealthy.

The labour Party will not increase the tax on unearned income.

People like Rishi Sunak will continue to pay less tax on their unearned income than someone who works for a living.

You and I pay a tax rate of 20% on all earned income between £12,571 and £50.270.

The rich and wealthy only pay 18% tax on unearned income between £12,571 and £50,270.

You and I pay a 40% tax rate on earned incomes between £50,271 and £125.140.

The rich and wealthy only pay a 28% tax rate on unearned incomes between £50,271 and £125,139.

(Above figures from Uswitch: Capital gains tax allowances and rates: 20/06/23.)

In short, should the Labour Party become the next government, it will have no more money at its disposal than the current Tory government unless it decides to increase taxes on those who work for a living. Starmer has already ruled out borrowing more money so the only way he can increase government finances is to increase taxes on working people.

Starmer claims this wont be necessary as Labour intends to “grow the economy” but that is exactly the same answer that Rishi Sunak gives.

Neither of them seems to be heeding the wise words of Vivienne West.

NOT HIM NOTICING THE SMALLEST DETAILS — HE’S FALLING IN LOVE ♥️ (I would too)