Folia Theologica 11. (2000)
Eugene Csocsan de Váralja: The Just Income Distribution
THE JUST INCOME DISTRIBUTION 135 In order to overcome the depression public works have been started in Central Europe giving bread to those out of work. In America Roosevelt introduced the New Deal. The name of this reform shows, that it was a new distribution of income, by which the needy and the poor could find provisions through social security arrangements. These social measures were not necessarily secured by balanced state budget each oa year, but they were justified by the theories of Keynes. He became a Lord because of his achievements in economics, and using his theories Keynesian economists succeeded to avoid depression and unemployment as well as inflation for many years following the IInd World War. The Beveridge Plan (which scheduled to cover virtually all the social needs represented by the ius utendi,) stated, that “It could not be expected, that the Social Security Fund would balance its expenditures and incomes each year. The old age and health insurance is a life's job and not of a year. Similarly it is not desired, that the payments of the unemployment benefits should equal the corresponding contributions every year. The Fund (of Social Security) might contribute to the full employment by saving in the period of prosperity and by spending and possibly borrowing in depression”.84 85 It has to be stated, that this observation corresponds to the statement of the Divine Redemptoris: “As soon as we satisfied social justice, its fruit will appear immediately in the quickening paces of the entire economic life, in the peace and order, that is in the healthy beat of the society's body.”86 b) The accumulation of wealth is economically useful and much needed for economic development and morally it might be right, because the saving requires self-denial. The inclination to acquire is an instinct planted into us by God, but it ought to be bridled by generosity. Otherwise it becomes a goal in itself, that is to say the capital sin of greed. It Charitate Christi compulsi, AAS 1932 (a XXIV), page 178. 84 KEYNES, John Maynard: “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,” London 1936 85 MIHELICS, Vid: A Beveridge-terv (The Beveridge Plan), Budapest 1944, page 153. 86 Si igitur iustitiae sociali provisum fuerit, ex oeconomicis rebus uberis enas- centur actuose nativitatis fructus, qui in tranquillitatis ordine maturescent, Civitatisque vim firmitudinem ostendent; quemadmodum humani corporis valetudo ex imperturbata, plena fructuosaque eius opera dignoscitur. Divini Redemptoris, AAS 1937 (a. XXIX), page 92.
