The Fallacy of Some Liberal Catholic Social Justice Thinking- Lets Soak the Rich!! (Updated)

Michael Sean Winters either writes columns I totally agree with or very much disagree with. This column is the wacko department. See his piece at the Catholic America magazine blog Yes, Let's Tax the Super-Rich to Pay for Health Care.

Now there are many problems with this. The use of the term neo cons is annoying. I thought neo con referred to a particular foreign policy mindset but now it appears to refer to a specific economic mindset as well. Who knew?

He states at the end "I vote for Democrats for one primary reason. They raise taxes on the rich. It remains a good reason to vote for them. Now, so long as they can keep the abortion funding out of the bill, this health care reform could become the first outstanding example of a policy that reflects Benedict’s call for a more just society."

If he thinks this the prime call of the Pope he is out to lunch.

There has been a fine response to how irresponsible this all is. See Health Care is More Important than Class Warfare, America! via the Action Inst.

Let me add my own contribution. The Pope, when he was Cardinal, made this observation about economics

A morality that believes itself able to dispense with the technical knowledge of economic laws is not morality but moralism. As such it is the antithesis of morality. A scientific approach that believes itself capable of managing without an ethos misunderstands the reality of man. Therefore it is not scientific.

Related to this is a observation made at the Atlantic. See Funding Health Care With a Surtax. She states in part:
Yet the more practical plans for funding Obama's expensive agenda involve things like a VAT, which will fall on the activists most enthusiastic about national health care. Yet none of the think tankers I know believes that they are undertaxed, or can easily spare 10% of their wages.Why is that the most practical? Look at our current deficit. There's a reason that most countries do not attempt to fund large welfare states with a very progressive income tax, the way we do*. The income of the wealthy is fungible, mobile, and volatile. These are not strengths from the vantage of the tax system.Paying for a huge new entitlement which will, at best, grow steadily during downturns, should not be done with a tax that will plummet the way progressive income tax revenues seem to during a depression. See: California, State of.

But yet this does not seem to enter many more lets say Obama supporting liberal Social Catholic Justice minds. In fact perhaps Mr Winters has given us a great insight in the thinking.

This is not the first time this has happened. I can recall a whole much of Catholic Social Justice organization running to embrace the Obama Stimulus plan and issuing a report how good it was. Well it appears it was not as advertised. Thus they have sort of cut their throat because the next time people might not be buying a need for yet more huge expenditures. This might hurt them and us where there might be a real need in certain situations for expenditures on x.

Update-
Perhaps Mr Winters and all of us as to the Health Care Bill need to be concerned about a lot of things. See via the Strata Sphere Obamacare: Only The Strong Will Survive III