Particularly since the early 1980s, the US has often pursued policies that favor the wealthy and increase economic inequality, which economists and theologians have come to label “the exact freaking opposite” of Jesus’s teachings about caring for the poor—and the dangers of wealth—as stated in Matthew 19:24 and Luke 16:19–31. Christian America has been caught up in the long con of trickle-down economics, a rigged system that gives massive tax cuts to the wealthiest, who need them the least, and all too often punishes struggling people with cuts to social services, fare hikes, and a degrading
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