Taking From the Hapless Poor Has a Long and Noble Tradition

[Johny Joe Hold]

Here in Iowa, Scandinavians are prominent people. These white and successful people are the bedrock of the U. S.

I've read about how Scandinavians came to be so successful. It turns out that in ancient times when weather hurt fishing and farming, their raiding parties went south and took what they needed from the hapless countries there.

That is a lesson for when tax revenues are needed in our country. There are people who cannot fight back when taxes on them are raised. Poor people do not have lawyers and politicians on their side.

So, we who are better off need to take a lesson from the Vikings, tax the poor but not the rich. No one understands that better than President Trump. We are fortunate to have a student of history on our side during these troubled times.

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/fish-farm-or-fight/

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Taking From the Hapless Poor Has a Long and Noble Tradition

A historical look at the spread of Christ's faith shows the same trends I believe, and one can only conclude the LORD approves of those who are courageous and crafty enough to take control of the resources left ungoverned by slovenly folk. It's a proud heritage we have, and I am grateful Jesus delivered unto us a president who has the wherewithal to stop the practice of assigning guilt to the white race just because we are more successful than any other.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Re: Taking From the Hapless Poor Has a Long and Noble Tradition

If it's one thing I've come to admire about Democrats it's their propensity to tax things they don't like and that they think the rest of us shouldn't be doing. Often called "sin" taxes, they tax tobacco (cigarettes), alcohol, carbon, sugary drinks, fast food, gas guzzling cars, and plastic bags (to name a few). It certainly provides an "incentive" not to engage in the targeted behavior.

We can all agree that the poor are certainly undesirable, and it's a brilliant idea to tax them.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Taking From the Hapless Poor Has a Long and Noble Tradition

The Vikings understood math. In the USA there are 540 Billionaires and there are 323,100,000 people in the USA. This means that there are 323,094,460 poor people. Taxing the rich isn't going to make any difference at all, but the widow's mite from the poor, even a mere $10 a year each, raises over $3 billion. Compare that to taxing each billionaire by $10... $5400 - hardly enough for a meal at a good restaurant for a family of 8.

Simple math, folks - simple math.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Taking From the Hapless Poor Has a Long and Noble Tradition

Falling sea levels provided another challenge for the Lofoten Vikings. The Lofoten Islands, like much of Scandinavia, are to this day rebounding from the loss of the massive ice sheets that covered the land during the last ice age. This phenomenon, called isostatic rebound, is causing the islands to rise, effectively making the sea level fall. This means that boathouses built at the water’s edge could be stranded inland a few decades later.

I had to laugh. Climate change has been going on for centuries causing islands to rise and sea levels to fall? Meanwhile in the Pacific they tell us that sea level rise is very recent because the savages living there had viable barter economies for centuries? Like, the same centuries? How could that be when the sea levels were so much higher for the Scandinavians? These "scientists" really need to get their story straight. Has water only recently begun to seek its own level? Or have the islands now started to sink.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Taking From the Hapless Poor Has a Long and Noble Tradition

The Lofoten Islands, like much of Scandinavia,

Ah, The Lofoten Islands, inhabited by the people God forgot. Anyway - doesn't this mean that if the islands rise far enough, it will save the cost of a bridge? Why do the atheist Left always see a bad side to everything?

And this is the capital of Lofotia:

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Taking From the Hapless Poor Has a Long and Noble Tradition

Why do the atheist Left always see a bad side to everything?

It's because they're atheists. Their own "science" has been shown wrong so they're deflecting attention to something else.

II PETER 3 .KJV . look up
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

For so long they've been going on about billions of years and how Arabia crashes into India producing the Zagros mountains while the oceans rise an enormous amount so much so that even now Tuvalu, Kiribati & The Maldives are being swamped, they say, whilst adjacent coasts show no such change in the same oceans.

PACIFIC OCEAN

these bathing boxes have stood in the same place (nicely maintained with
fresh bright paint as is the custom) for over 100 years but no flooding yet

INDIAN OCEAN
....
1857 built old brewery [LEFT] now renovated [RIGHT] was constructed on
the shore of an estuary open to the Indian Ocean, remains uninundated

God has explained not only that oceans have absolute limits but also how those limits are maintained. Do these scientists really expect to overturn God's assurance here? It's not as though there isn't one! Of course, like most island nations, God is the last thing on their agenda. In some cases the Roman catholics have waltzed in but there is no Christian influence at all. Even those who did not cook missionaries have adopted a lackadaisical approach to anything they heard, mocking Jesus, so it's no surprise if God's decided to sink them. But the water remains where it always was, just as God promised.

JEREMIAH 5 .KJV . look up
22a Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence,
22b Which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a .perpetual. decree, that it cannot pass it:
22c And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;
22d Though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23- But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Sand prevents sea level rise. God says so. Scientists think they know better than God and came up with billions of years for mountains to grow but over in the Lofoten Islands the things are rising up so that according to their theory in a century or two the central one [TOP] must surpass Everest! Where is all the extra rock supposed to come from? Scientists. When they stop believing in God they don't believe nothing, as is said, they'll believe just about anything contradicting themselves and God all in the same breath. It's time to lobby for all false science to be removed from the classroom in secularist schools and for the nation to return to Jesus.