Obama: Hey, Jesus, about that Buffett Rule parable? Never mind.

Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:26 pm, by

Earlier this month Pres. Obama gave the annual prayer breakfast a highly edited snippet from Jesus’ parable in Luke — namely, 19:26b: “I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away” Luke 12:48b, paraphrased: “from to whom much is given, much shall be required” — in order to justify his ridiculous Buffett Rule. I wrote about it here under the heading “Obama: Jesus said I can take the money.”

Jesus’ inferred approval notwithstanding, it turns out that Obama actually did not propose the Buffett Rule in his tax policy.

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Jon Sanders (twitter.com/jonpsanders) is Director of Regulatory Studies at the John Locke Foundation. A columnist for TownHall.com, Sanders has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, ABC News online, FrontPage Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, the Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous newspapers throughout North Carolina. A native of Garner, N.C., Sanders has been an adjunct instructor in economics at North Carolina State University, and he holds a masters degree in economics with a minor in statistics and a bachelors degree in English literature and language from N.C. State.

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