MSNBC’s O’Donnell Explains Jesus's Position On Progressive Tax Brackets

Biblical scholar Lawrence O'Donnell is citing Jesus as the source for the rich having to turn over all their earned income to the government. That the wealthy may have an increased religious obligation to charity, rather than a government mandated compulsion in taxation, is something apparently too complicated for MSNBC hosts to wrap their heads around. They would rather reinvent Jesus as the IRS tax man.

If O'Donnell truly conflates charity with taxation, there is nothing stopping him from giving his entire MSNBC salary to the U.S. Treasury.

It's good to know that the liberals at MSNBC actually have no problem with citing the Bible to support today's political policies. I am sure they would have no problem with anyone on the Christian right doing the same, right?
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