Trump, Taxes, and the Exodus We Need
Taxation is theft.
Let’s get that out of the way from the jump. Once you understand the IRS is merely Pharaoh in a blazer keeping the unwitting people enslaved, the rest becomes clearer.
So why does Trump keep talking about tips?
Is this really just about tips?
Or is it about something we keep discussing–a spark to ignite permission for new conversations to rise from the dead.
We’ve explored this perspective at length through the Ukraine-Russia story, among others to a lesser degree.
But it’s all the same narrative. It’s the same break-up.
“No tax on tips,” he says, and suddenly every waitress, bartender, and bellhop perks up. But there’s more happening here than populist pandering. From the beginning, this felt like classic Trump—game theory with teeth. A populist breadcrumb trail meant not just to woo workers, but to wedge open a deeper discourse. Just like his jab about “taking Gaza” had nothing to do with invading foreign territory and everything to do with exposing allegiances and forcing neighboring Middle East countries’ hands, it is a good guess that this “tip talk” is not about gratuity. It’s about seeding that deeper question.
If those hours shouldn’t be taxed, why should any?
This isn’t a gimmick. It has the potential to be a grenade–if only we’ll join in the fight.
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Have you ever thought that we are slaves and don’t even know it? Have you ever considered why the Israelites grumbled so much in the desert as Moses was leading them out of Egyptian slavery and toward a whole new world of something better, something divinely ordained?
The moment we accept that overtime and tips are the fruit of extra labor—hours we don’t owe anyone but God and our families—we are one step away from realizing our regular hours aren’t the government’s either. And from there, the whole structure starts to wobble.
Only then can we have any hope of it coming crashing down.
The Fed isn’t doing you a favor or stabilizing markets. It’s keeping us deceived. It’s rigging reality itself. And most Americans, Christian or not, have accepted this as the basic cost of civilization, an opportunity just to obey the fourth commandment and our superiors—when in truth, it’s forcing us to choose slavery and idol worship over the figure featured in the First Commandment itself.
Trump’s moves, whether instinctual or engineered, whether ultimately for the “American good” or not, force the conversation down the ladder, force the conversation into eschatological things—which is of course the whole purpose of my particular work for this site. And that’s where things get dangerous for the regime, the deep(est) state, the seed of the serpent. Because once Americans start asking who has the right to tax labor—labor born of divine image and personal sacrifice—they begin to see that consent has been manufactured. Not earned.
They’ll see that that story about the Caesar coin in the Bible is about Jesus putting the image of Caesar second behind the image of God–he doesn’t erase Caesar.
He puts him in his place.
Once our focus is on God, on where Moses may be leading us, then we understand that Egypt–the taxes to Caesar–aren’t even a part of the equation.
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I’m telling you, reading Scripture is the best thing you can do for yourself and your family. Read it in order. Read all the “boring” parts. That is where you realize what God has always tried to tell the people that purport to love him.
Do that and you might start connecting dots.
The dollar isn’t sacred. The IRS isn’t moral. And the system is not your friend.
So when Trump says “no tax on tips”? Don’t roll your eyes.
Roll the stone away.
There’s a resurrection underneath this rhetoric. A chance to remember that man was made to work, not to be worked over. That labor is sacred. And that Pharaoh still fears one thing more than anything else–
A people who remember they’re free.
Because when they do?
They stop building treasure cities for tyrants.
And they start walking out of Egypt.
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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
