On the subject of the type of economy socialist, communist, capitalist etc have you considered the type of economy God apparently found preferable in his effort to save the people through whom He would eventually provide the Messiah?
With God's blessing, Joseph created the Egyptian IRS. And we believe this to be the providence of God.
During the good years the Egyptian IRS took a high percentage of the crops if not all of the abundance, the excess of normal harvest. Talk about a tax rate. During the famine, the Egyptian IRS sold the food they had confiscated back to the people who had grown it. Nothing indicates the people had any voice in the price they were required to pay. When the people had spent all their money the Egyptian IRS took the people's livestock in exchange for food and eventually their land and finally the people themselves. The people became servants to the Egyptian IRS The people were completely dependent on the government for survival. The record shows the Egyptian IRS owned all of Egypt minus the land of the priests. When the people sold themselves the Egyptian IRS gave them seed with instructions that they owed 20% of future crops to the Egyptian IRS. The once free farmers, were tenant farmers, they owned no land, no animals, nothing except what the Egyptian IRS gave them.
In the first century the immersed had every thing in common. No one considered any of the things that belonged to him was there own.
Concerning our economy today, what is our current president doing that the Bible suggests God would disagree with?
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