DennisPTate
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Based on statements in the Book of Samuel I have believed for years now that a
Flat Income Tax Rate of nine point nine percent, [a little bit less than ten percent], would
set in motion a massive boom in the economy.
Samuel was correct in warning Israel that their king would charge then ten percent
so going a little less than ten percent.....
would set a precedent that would have significant value in terms of our relationship with our Creator?
Flat Income Tax Rate of nine point nine percent, [a little bit less than ten percent], would
set in motion a massive boom in the economy.
Samuel was correct in warning Israel that their king would charge then ten percent
so going a little less than ten percent.....
would set a precedent that would have significant value in terms of our relationship with our Creator?
[I Samuel 8]
10So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who asked him for a king. 11And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots. 12He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. 14And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. 15He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. 16And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. 18And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.”
19Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, 20that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
21And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of the Lord. 22So the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed their voice, and make them a king.”
And Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”