Vice President Kamala Harris plans to increase taxes on wealthy individuals and large corporations as part of her economic plan if elected in November, she said in a new interview.

Since becoming the Democratic Party's official nominee for president, Harris has said she will provide $25,000 housing subsidies for first-generation home buyers, implement $100 billion in tax credits for the manufacturing sector and increase small business tax credits by tenfold. And she plans on paying for this by making the rich and greedy corporations pay their fair share, and her Marxist’s administration will determine what “fair share” means.

They know that big corporations don’t really pay tax. They just add that to the cost of doing business. So, in the end, those who want to stick it to them get it stuck to them in the form of higher prices for goods and services..

As far as the rich are concerned, here’s the reality: Most of the government’s federal income tax revenue comes from the nation’s top income earners. In 2021, the top 5% of earners - people with incomes $252,840 and above - collectively paid over $1.4 trillion in income taxes, or about 66% of the national total. If you include the top 10% - everyone who made at least $169,800 - that figure rises to $1.7 trillion, or 76% of the total.

The top 50% of earners contributed 97.7% of federal income tax revenue.

Envy very well may be the greatest disease of our age. The politicians consistently stir up envy by reminding the people that somebody else has it (cheaper taxes, cheaper tuition, cheaper housing, cheaper or free health care, business-class tickets, a Tesla, etc.) and it is unfair that you don't. We are told that some people have more than their fair share, and that only the government can make things fairer by taxing and regulating the successful. The losses of the rich are supposed to make the rest of us happier and better off.

Envy, although often confused with jealousy and covetousness, is much more insidious and deadly. Envy is the feeling that someone else’s having something is to blame for the fact that you do not have it. The principal motive is thus not so much to take, but to destroy. The envier acts against the object of his envy, not to benefit himself, but to cut the other person down to his own level or below.

A peasant in the Russian proverb who was offered one wish by a genie: “You may have anything your heart desires,” said the genie, “but your neighbor will receive twice as much as you do.” The peasant thought a while, and replied, “Make me blind in one eye.”

“The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: ‘Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.’ It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner” (Gary North).

Envy is a cheat. It will destroy a citizen and their culture much more than any enemies - imagined or real - will do.

The politics of envy and guilt is nothing other than class hatred and war. It is a blight on the soul, a rottenness eating at the foundations of culture. No society can long survive it: the nation that fails to overcome it through faith and obedience will fall. It is the sociology of Satan. It is but a step away from hell.

Envy destroys the person who commits it. They do not work for the future and the glory of God. They cannot fulfill the purpose for which he was created. Their frustration increases: They can’t enjoy what they have, for they are eaten up by what others have or, when they turn envy in upon himself, by what others do not have.

More than this, envy is a rot on the foundations of society. If the cultural ethic is the destruction of anyone who owns something that others don’t own, the result is chaos. And if you are fearful of your neighbors’ envy, you won’t produce. Success and productivity become dangerous, and the whole culture declines. A civilization dominated by envy has rottenness in its bones: it is doomed to extinction. “Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?” (Proverbs 27:4)

In a timely and brilliantly written book, Anne Hendershott states: “When toxic envy grows unchecked, it will inevitably destroy an individual, a family, a society - even a civilization. In our day, envy has reached its tipping point, fueling acts of anger, violence, and revenge in America's cities and corporate boardrooms.

Hendershott argues that the political class, social media, and advertisers have created a culture of covetousness by relentlessly provoking us to envy others and to be envied. The result is not surprising: a deeply indignant and rapacious generation that believes no one is more deserving of advantages and rewards than they.

She goes on to explain how envy leads to resentment, which eventually erupts into violence and rage, malicious mobs, cancel culture, and the elevation of dysfunctional political systems such as socialism and Marxism.

We are witnessing the wholesale use of the politics of envy in an unprecedented manner. Envy is being used to manipulate the object of envy into feeling guilty for being envied. The envied person is made to believe that he really is responsible for the sufferings of others, that his wealth is actually a cause of poverty in other people. When envy is so pervasive in society, when it is positively encouraged by our leaders, we turn the envy back on ourselves and feel guilty for what we possess. A central motive of socialistic reformers is to cause an orgy of self-flagellation among property owners.

The envious man does not stop at merely bewailing the “fact” that the rich are to blame for the plight of the poor. He nurtures this hatred of his enemy. Regardless of his own advantages, he cannot bear to think of the object of his envy enjoying anything.

It is this envious, destructionist mentality, nursing itself on the notion that "your wealth is the cause of my poverty,” that is the basic ethos of socialism. For socialism does not - and cannot - build up capital. It seeks only to expropriate or destroy the capital of others.

Winston Churchill wrote that, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Socialism is institutionalized envy coupled with legalized, strong-armed theft. Socialism was once proclaimed as a way to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. Almost everyone knows today that socialism makes most people poorer. Yet socialistic legislation still appeals to millions of voters all over the world. They would rather see most people poorer under socialism than see most people wealthier under a free market system. They resent the rich far more than they resent poverty. They resent the idea that some people have more wells or better wells than others.

If America is to survive, let alone continue to prosper, we must personally overcome the temptation to allow envy to make its home in our minds. Once resident, it then opens the door to the politics of envy and guilt and we are all made poorer and powerless by it - all except the politicians who believed, like the pigs in George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, where all pigs were equal, except some pigs, and they were more equal than others!

One of the Ten Commandments is that we must not covet. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Exodus 20:17). The word ‘covet’ means “to envy”, “to long for or desire for ourselves”. When we look at what other people have that we do not have we can begin to be jealous, full of envy and greed. As a result, we become discontent with what we have and often bitter about what we do not have. Our hearts begin to harden towards God as we feel that we aren’t getting our fair share. We lose a sense of gratitude and become focused on meeting external wants rather than living with a heart right before God. Coveting is a sin, and opens a door for more sin to follow. Covetousness and greed are never satisfied. We always want more and more and more and eventually, we will resort to all sorts of means to satisfying our greed!

It is only through the whole-hearted embracing of the gospel of the kingdom of God that we will realize that God is our Strength, our Provider, and our Source. He is faithful and true and when we put our trust in Him, He meets all our needs. No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can receive everything we need from the Lord. When we realize this we can live lives of contentment, at peace in relationship with God and others. Then we will be able to say with Paul, “I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.” (Philippians 4:12-13)

God help us!