"us Republicans do not object to folks being wealthy!"

I've never understood how the "religious right" can be so remarkably comfortable about extreme personal wealth, given that according to the Gospels, rich people have as much chance of getting to heaven as a camel has of getting through the eye of a needle.

In the light of the Gospels, stringent taxation of rich people seems like a fairly self-evident aspect of Christian duty towards our brothers and sisters who are unfortunate enough to have been saddled with too much worldy wealth.

Les Barker, of course, has suggested that one way to get a camel through a needle is to put it through a liquidiser first. Which I suppose amounts to the same thing, metaphorically speaking.