{"id":47071,"date":"2020-02-05T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/02\/05\/pope-francis-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-and-tax-havens-are-structures-of-sin\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:12:00","slug":"pope-francis-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-and-tax-havens-are-structures-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/02\/05\/pope-francis-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-and-tax-havens-are-structures-of-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Tax cuts for the rich and tax havens are structures of sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pope Francis participated in a meeting in the Vatican with Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, and economy ministers from around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pope delivered a strong speech which emphasized people cannot sit back in a world in which more and more people are plunged in misery, when the wealth of a small minority continues to increase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong>  <br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe main message of hope I want to share with you is precisely this: these are solvable problems, not ones from a lack of resources. There is no determinism that condemns us to universal inequity. Let me repeat: we are not condemned to universal inequity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore, he appealed for collective responsibility.<\/strong> He asked each person to do his or her part in putting a finger in the wound of the problem with a very concrete statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS <br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'If there is extreme poverty in the midst of wealth, also extreme wealth, it is because we have allowed the gap to widen, until it has become the largest in history.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope criticized welfare only being for a select few. He asked financial organizations and governments to work for the common good, social justice and integral development, so<strong> they do not to become structures of sin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> <br \/>\n<em>\u201cStructures of sin today include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development; tax havens for private and corporate profits, and the possibility of corruption by some of the largest companies in the world, often in tune with some dominant political sector.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, he asked for a renewal of the economy and finances, so they collaborate in searching for humanizing solutions to humanity's problems.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 5, 2020. He participated in a meeting with Kristalina Georgieva, economy ministers and financial experts from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SPb6nBu_eqE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapacasinaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapacasinaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}