When you vote for higher taxes on others you are in fact acting as a mob to enlist government to send armed men to confiscate assets from another person or other group for your or another’s personal enrichment. In all of history that is the definition of theft. The nice word for it is taxes. Try not paying your taxes, and I guarantee that a man with a gun from the government will come kick down your door and haul you away and lock you in a cage. How is that not exactly “pointing a gun at someone and forcing them to give?”

One can argue the necessity of taxes as one thing, but the left has gone far beyond that singling out a tiny minority they call the 1% to make them specific targets of confiscation and hatred to enrich the other 99%. When it moves to such extreme narratives then it has become a truly dark evil spirit that is motivating those who lead it. When one considers that the “1%” already pays about 50% of all taxes thus paying much or all of the other 99%’s dutiful obligation already then there can be no doubt that the true motivation behind all this is the spirit of envy, theft and greed on steroids.

I don’t hate others, but if there is anything I do hate it is evil, and theft is definitely one of it’s most serious forms. Jesus even singled out theft as a core evil alongside murder, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” John 10:10. It is this theme of moralizing theft and mob targeting others for hatred and retribution through confiscation and ostracization that is now the primary agenda of the left, and that has split our nation so deeply. Fostering greed hatred and envy is entirely the work and legacy of the left which has exploded in the last 8-12 years.

The cure for all this is charity not theft. Charity flows freely from the heart and cannot be the result of coercion or it transforms to theft. It is the left that is missing the heart of charity and it’s corollary gratitude in our nation, and until that changes things will only get worse.