Most Christians will probably disagree with me. I full recognize that many of you have paid
far more in taxes than you will ever “get back” from the government. My general assessment is that Christians
shouldn’t take money from the government and that in general most taxes and
programs are a form of legislated theft.
If Christians take money from the government, then they are
endorsing people taking money from you and others.
If the Government can force you to pay for others’
retirement, then it is hard to argue they can’t force you to pay for others’
health care.
Government programs are filled with abuse. Social Security,
for example, spent the money that was paid in by the original payees on other
programs then used the money coming in by the next generation’s payees to fund
the social security payments of the first generation of payees. When private
citizens engage in these kinds of investment programs, the government calls
them criminals and their programs Ponzi schemes.
Relying on the government for money is welfare. You are recognizing them as an authority over
your life to manipulate your actions in order to gain wealth in this world.
Social Security is going broke, and the burden to fix it and
fund it is falling on future generations. The government is stealing from our
children and grandchildren to correct its own abuses and mismanagement.
Social Security is a form of communism. It creates a place
for the government to intervene and have authority over our lives from cradle
to grave.
We could have hours of conversations and discussion about
this, and it is a tough subject. There
are a couple of questions to ask about this subject:
Does Social Security make us a freer society or lead us to
being a freer society?
Who is paying for Social Security?
Does Social Security build community?
Social Security is being paid by those working today and
those who are retired get the money. The
money that retirees put in was taken by the people retired when they were
working. So it is not the money taken
from you that you are getting back it is the money taken from your sons and
daughters and their sons and daughters that is paying for the current retirees.
Your sons and daughters will NOT be getting their money back
according to the AP.
But it is now official: Social Security is a
lousy investment for the average worker. People retiring today will be among
the first generation of workers to pay more in Social Security taxes than they
receive in benefits over the course of their lives, according to a new analysis by the Associated Press.
Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/08/07/social-security-now-takes-more-than-it-gives/#ixzz2fS7c36zV
Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/08/07/social-security-now-takes-more-than-it-gives/#ixzz2fS7c36zV
How would this program become broken? If we are all forced to pay into it, how could
it be unsustainable?
The only answer is that someone at some time took out more
than their share. This has come in the
form of abuse (noted above) and paying out more than the system can
handle. Basically a large group of
people have been taking more out of the system than they put into it, which is
stealing.
You aren’t taking from a wasteful government (as many people
like to justify), you are taking from your own family and friends relatives. This country is $16 trillion in debt, because
its people have been stealing from the next generation for way too long.
The Bible warns against using “unequal weights” and that is
precisely what Social Security system uses to pay out.
Jesus told us to pay taxes, but to give to God what is
Gods. We are made in his image, we are
to form community and support each other.
Government cradle to grave programs destroy community and create selfishness.
Yes Social Security is a system that we have and taking from
it may be the only thing some people have to live. If you don’t have to buy into it, then we
shouldn’t. It is the church that God
charges to take care of widows and those who cannot work. However the Church and Christians have bought
into the idea that it is the government’s job.
Even if we say we don’t believe it is the government’s job our actions
clearly show differently.
The government has gotten so big and is in charge of things
it should not be responsible for because Christians refuse to say no and continue,
through their actions, to support a larger government.
At best taking Social Security as a Christian is buying into
the idea that the government has the right to redistribute funds from future generation
to our own. At worst it is using the
government to legislate stealing from future generations so we can live the good
life. At what point does it stop?
