There are two competing world views in the United States: socialism and Christianity.
Socialism is a system where the State controls capital and production, plans the economy and redistributes wealth from producers to non producers. It breeds a welfare environment where citizens become dependent upon the State for their daily bread. Individual liberties are replaced with the “common good,” decided by bureaucrats.
In socialism, the State claims to be the sovereign authority, demanding people’s homage. Socialistic States are secular and have great disdain for Christianity which rejects this philosophy. Socialism is a de facto secular religious system which elevates the State to the position of God. Remember the Romans proclaimed, “Vox populi, Vox Dei,” meaning “The voice of the people is the voice of God.”
Christianity acknowledges the sovereignty of God revealed in the Bible and through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christianity proclaims liberty under law. It encourages personal responsibility and initiative. Proverbs instructs that, “The hand of the diligent shall prosper.” The concept of private property is firmly established by the 8th Commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Christianity teaches that all government authority is established by God and that civil rulers must govern according to a higher law.
This was the perspective of our founding fathers. George Washington wrote, “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
Yet politicians increasingly choose socialism over our Christian heritage. Nowhere is this more evident than in taxation.
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The Bible teaches tithing ten percent of your income to the Church and Christian ministries as acknowledgment that all that we have comes from God’s providential hand.
The socialist State claims ownership over citizens and their possessions by taxing their income and property. Even after you have paid off your mortgage, if you stop paying property taxes, you will find out who really owns your home.
The United States has adopted a so called “progressive” income tax policy. As income increases, the percentage of income subject to taxes rises. Those who earn the most pay the highest percentage of their income in taxes. According to the Congressional Budget Office the top 1% of income earners pays nearly 40% of the total income taxes collected by the federal government. The top 10% income earners pay nearly 70% of the total income taxes collected. The top 40% of income earners pay 99% of all income taxes.
This means 60% of the people pay no income tax. Yet the socialists reward them with government programs.
What is progressive about a system which penalizes individuals who strive to be successful? If you tax productivity, you get less of it. If you subsidize laziness, you get more of it.
The socialists promote organized theft of the producers, under the guise of good government, and redistribute their money to buy the votes of the non productive, disincentivizing both groups.
We have a critical choice to make: Follow socialism and lose our liberty and property or return to our nation’s Christian heritage.
American Vision’s mission is to "Restore America to its Biblical Foundation—from Genesis to Revelation." We have been at the heart of worldview study since 1978, providing resources to exhort Christian families and individuals to live with a biblically based worldview. 
I am a Christian, and alot of Christians here feel the same way. Our Prime Minister is a Christian, and he is with the Australian Labour Party. Looking after the people doesn't have to be anti-Christianity.
The truth is that the majority of wealthy people DON'T share their wealth. They keep it all and buy mansions, yatchs and everything else the wealthy buy. Yes, there are some that give to charity, but we just can't rely on those few to support the genuinely poor, sick and disabled. We need to pay our taxes so that we all have a safety net.
I am so glad I live in Australia. We pay our taxes, and we are looked after. I don't have to worry about being homeless if I get sick and need to take a few weeks off work. If you are homeless here, it's out of choice. I know that, I've worked for the government and if someone is down on their luck there are places they can stay albeit dormatory accommodation. Our homeless people here really do choose this lifestyle. We shudder here when we hear how quickly you can lose everything in the USA, especially after the GFC.
Alot of what I'm reading here is foreign to me. I'm happy to pay my taxes. I'm happy to support disabled people and people who can't work. I'm happy to support single mothers who need a bit of help to get back on their feet. And our country is NOT filled with lazy unemployed people and young girls who fall pregnant to get money. They are a minority. ……Continued
SO MUCH B.S. here. Some people will just write anything. I see it as the American public's IQ is being tested. Ayn Rand made the very exact same arguements and she was an atheist. No we're not living under centrally-planned socialism, still a far-cry. This article is a red herring for something else, died-in-the wool repuglicrats, lobbying for their right to make money by any means, and keep all their ill-got goodies. "My right to be selfish," which Jesus NEVER argued in favor of. Osama-Saddam; see how artfully the public's attention got shifted? White is black, black is white, and vice is virtue. Pure Orwellian double-speak
Top 1% pay ZERO taxes as do most corporations. Poor pay no taxes. Biggest burden is upon the shrinking middle-class who haven't the income to justify high-power accounting firms. Your statistics are all wrong.
And the income tax exists not because of social programs, that's a complete lie. It began with the Federal Reserve Act, when Congress became the printer for the Federal Reserve corporation. Congress doesn't own ANY of the money it prints. Read that again and let it sink in. Once the Fed pays for it (cost of paper and ink), it's theirs to keep and distribute for further profit (interest charged.) Now when Congress realized it was BROKE by selling paper and ink at cost (not the face-value on the bills), it knew it needed revenue, to which the Fed advised, "Tax the people!" so the Federal Reserve Act is the DIRECT REASON WHY you must be taxed! Government is broke and needs the revenue! Conversely, by repealing the Federal Reserve Act, Congress would recover ownership of the currency it prints (US Dollars vs. Federal Reserve Notes/FRN's) and could then print as much money as it needs to do what "we the people" can agree, without taxing you at all. As scandalous as that may sound, the Constitution allows it;
what they're doing right now is patently illegal. US Banking is the most epic scam/entitlement on the planet. All this talk about SSI, Medicare, "Welfare," when banks enjoy the most obscene, secret, invisible entitlement, and continue waging class-warfare for more, until no safety net or social security exists. Then you all become fish-in-barrel who will work for whatever crumbs the globalists see fit to pay you.
Let me repeat: Federal Reserve buys sheets of money in ALL denominations, for cost of paper and ink. They own
it at point of purchase. US Government owns NONE of it, USG' is BROKE!
And this:
"The socialist State claims ownership over citizens and their possessions by taxing their income and property. Even after you have paid off your mortgage, if you stop paying property taxes, you will find out who really owns your home."
Dude, you need to wake up. Property taxes are mostly local. They cover streetlights, garbage pick-up, public schools and local initiatives. Maybe you'd prefer absence of libraries, no streetlights, garbage-rat hills on your lawn, and uneducated street thugs because you were too cheap to offer local youth any recreational outlets. So go buy a home in the woods where you have way fewer amenities and the taxes a lot less. After a few years of skinning bucks and making your own …everything, maybe you'll acquire an appreciation for education; because given the population increase between now and then, most of us couldn't live your "preferred" pioneer lifestyle, even if we wanted to. Yes, progress has a direction, and it's not backward.
I think if you get a Land Patent on our paid off home, there is not much the government can do to take it away for nan payment of taxes. I am just starting to learn about the Land Patent process
Dean, I'll approach the income tax first. According to President Reagan's Grace Commission Report of 1984, 100% of the income tax is spent paying the banking cartel's illegal interest on the that bogus national debt. The Federal Reserve Bank is a type of joint stock company that Congress outlawed in 1883. Not one dime of the income tax is spent on the operation of government. That has always come from customs duties, excise taxes, tariffs and imposts on tonnage. The government operated fine on this with a surplus.
Local governments tend to invest their surplus to the extent that over 50% of the stocks and bonds are purchased by institutionals (government). Ask for a copy of your city or county's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). This report shows where all the money coming into the treasury is sourced. The budget is a smaller part of the for-profit nature of the cities, counties and states. All the interest earned in any given year is placed with the principal the next year. After a number of decades, there is a tremendous amount of surplus which never gets spent on services or maintenance. It just continues to grow while these forms of government keep taxing you because they can. They are empire builders and when the empire is large enough, they can force you to do what they want. I hope this helps.
Most taxpayers are only so because they self-assess and file promissory documents signed 'Taxpayer', a legal term of art per 7701(a)14 of the Code. *Prima facie* liability, if one accepts the appellation.
There's much more to Congress' trap than that, but as I explain on "A Tax Honesty Primer" at taxhonestyprimer (dot) blogspot (dot) com, there's good reason that 67 million of us were non-filers as of 2005, and that the Nontaxpayer population is spreading like a prairie fire.
Former Idaho Rep. Phil Hart explains in detail in his 400-page book at constitutionalincome (dot) com that from 1909-13, Congress planned and executed the largest financial crime in history. Christ's people perish not only for lack of knowledge, but taxpayer minds are dimmed from lack of courage, as well.
We show you how to get serious with criminals in Congress, at myamericaagain (dot) org.