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"Capitalism is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market." (Merriam Webster Dictionary) Most observers have seen virtually every human ill arising from capitalism, a system ultimately based on the simple principle of free exchange. The gross inequalities of wealth and poverty in the U.S. are the natural result of a social, political, and economic system that places the maximization of private profit above all other social goals. The human, social, cultural, and spiritual benefits that would result from a more just distribution of wealth and power will never show up on the all-important quarterly profit and loss statement. However today the state does far more to harm than help the poor. Indeed, much of the poverty in the...

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