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So in other words you were wrong. Hey, just admit it. I make mistakes too sometimes. It's much better if you fess up and say, "Oops, sorry, I misspoke. It's 10%, not 12% or 15%. Sorry."
Umm?? No I am not wrong. One tithe is paid annually at 10%. There are one/ possibly two other tithes paid bi annually at 10%. HOwever it may actually be tri annually.That is 10% every other year....in other words 5% per annum. 10 + 5 =15% per annum max. Or 10+ 3.3 =13.3. Some dispute this and say there are actually 3 tithes.
I don't see how you can reason that, just because our government is not theocratic, and Israel was, it necessarily follows that God does not expect our government to treat its citizens as kindly as He expects a theocratic government to treat its citizens
O wow Grunge. You think government welfare is a "kindness". You really are naive. Welfare is a vote buyer. It works like this. Promise a large section of the population a hand out in return for votes.
You can look it up -- whenever taxes go down, individual support for various non-profit welfare decreases even more, when the need for them goes up. .
This is a fact
The vehicle for aid to the poor is absolutely non-profit institutions. I agree that huge government agencies do not run welfare programs efficiently. However, the funding for these programs MUST be public; there is no other source of funding that can be relied upon