THE RUINING OF AMERICA: PART VI
We have been examining God's Word to Samuel in which God warns Israel about what governments do in a fallen world. So far, we've looked at five characteristics of their downward spiral. We've reached number six: corruption. I Samuel 8:15: "He [the king] will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants."
As we saw in Part 5, governments never have enough money; as time progresses and beauracracies multiply, the "desk sitters" must be paid. To be paid, the government needs more money from its belieagured citizens. This leads to corruption. The truth of the matter is that a large portion of that money comes to rest in the coffers of those who support the party in power who took it away from the citizens through taxation.
The ruling party will point out to the citizenry that it's spending the money for, as they always say, "The common good." But truth be told, the government takes the money from those who work to produce it and then hand it over to the the non-producers in the society. This procedure goes under the beneficient name of "wealth reditribution."
To continue this distribution, the rulers must stay in power, so they act on this formula: spend, tax, elect. The horde of nonproducing citizens realize that they can vote themselves more money by keeping such rulers in power.
A vicious cyle has thus begun.
TBC
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