Johnson is also on the right tract regarding money, if that is all the matters. Those who are not sufficient controlled from within must be controlled from without.
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions. (Galatians 3:19)
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. (Proverbs 28:2)
Robert Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894), and Speaker of the House from 1838 to 1840, and later president of the Massachusetts Bible Society, explained that, “All societies of men must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent State Government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet. It may do for other countries and other governments to talk about the State supporting religion. Here, under our own free institutions, it is Religion which must support the State." (Speech to the Massachusetts Bible Society (1849-05-28), quoted in Robert Winthrop, Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions, Little, Brown & Co., 1852, p. 172)
Every choice you make is a result of what you truly believe - at least at the moment. We have large government due to less and less people )public and government) being controlled from within by God and conscience, and which results in costs of lives, souls and money.
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https://files.taxfoundation.org
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Galatians 5:
“4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
And Galatians 5:18
“18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
Again
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
That does not mean that we do not follow the laws, but we follow out of Love, not fear of consequences if we break it.