This brings up an essential point. The U.S. is not an explicitly Biblical nation. No explicit reference is made in the Constitituion or Declaration of Independence to “include by reference” anything about the Bible, there is no legal requirement that government actions or laws comply with Scripture.
Quite simply, Constitutionally, the U.S. allows for laws to be instituted that legalize theft, as long as they are passed into law by legal means. The only morality that is imposed is whatever morality is represented by the political whims of Congress.
The Congress and States passed laws that effected the IRS and it's regulations and redistributive taxing scheme, and so it is the law of the land. At no time was there any requirement to verify the law's compatibility with Scripture.
In the interest of avoiding religious persecution by the State, the Constitution provided blanket protection of any religion without regards to it's content, even including all sorts of evil and wicked cults.
Superficially, this appears to leave the responsibility to individuals to maintain good Christian Churches as an influential part of society. Such thinking, however, neglects to consider the considerable advantage in forming public opinion that subversive groups, whose leaders have malicious or treasonous intent and organize their followers in carrying out their schemes in secrecy, have over decent, God-fearing yet unsuspecting individuals.
The door being left open, evil crept in.
Accordingly, there is no requirement that God's law word be upheld by the U.S. government, and the Biblical purpose of government having the “power of the sword”, namely, that of restraining evil, appears to be accomplished less and less. Taxing those who produce and not taxing those who do not produce was voted into law a hundred years ago.
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