If 10% is good enough for God, it is good enough for the government.
When people turn from God they see life as a problem from which to be rescued (by government) rather than a joy and a challenge to be embraced.
It seems to me that the religious left, and their insistence that the application of coercive state power is necessary before people will do “the right thing”, betrays a distinct lack of faith in the power of God at work in the world.
10 Tithe Is Ok for God Hong Kong is almost right it is 12.5% Flat tax Individual and Corporate
From Pope Leo XIII, who foresaw the problems we are facing
“To have in public matters no care for religion, and in the arrangement and administration of civil affairs to have no more regard for God than if He did not exist, is a rashness unknown to the very pagans; for in their heart and soul the notion of a divinity and the need of public religion were so firmly fixed that they would have thought it easier to have a city without foundation than a city without God. Human society, indeed for which by nature we are formed, has been constituted by God the Author of nature; and from Him, as from their principle and source, flow in all their strength and permanence the countless benefits with which society abounds. As we are each of us admonished by the very voice of nature to worship God in piety and holiness, as the Giver unto us of life and of all that is good therein, so also and for the same reason, nations and States are bound to worship Him; and therefore it is clear that those who would absolve society from all religious duty act not only unjustly but also with ignorance and folly. “As men are by the will of God born for civil union and society, and as the power to rule is so necessary a bond of society that, if it be taken away, society must at once be broken up, it follows that from Him who is the Author of society has come also the authority to rule; so that whosoever rules, he is the minister of God. Wherefore, as the end and nature of human society so requires, it is right to obey the just commands of lawful authority, as it is right to obey God who ruleth all things; and it is most untrue that the people have it in their power to cast aside their obedience whensoever they please.” [Leo XIII, Encyclical: Humanum genus, April 20, 1884