Sacred Wealth and Profane Wealth

Economics is less dismal for me if I think in terms of profane wealth as the physical products produced by a people, and sacred wealth as the people, the sacred reproduction of the people.

Reality and practicality says that producing physical products to sell, the profane wealth of a nation, is necessary to maintain sacred wealth, the evolving people of a nation.

People who make things, the creators of profane wealth, support people who do not make things, like the government, the arts, religion etc, so the right balance must be found between the two. Greed can easily enter the picture.

I think a value added tax (VAT) might create the right balance, say, 18 percent on foreign imports. This could fairly provide for the necessary government services. A value-added tax is plugged on to every good and service inside the economy. Taxing consumption in our country could be adjusted for the very poor.  This could do away with income taxes.  This could bring manufacturing back to this country.

As to religion, it is the Church ideally which manages people as the sacred wealth of a nation. I don't see a big problem with monarchy or theocracy (or combining them as in the ancient Priest-King), but we live in an American Republic, and I do have a problem with trying to change things with revolution and radicalism. And dual sovereignty between the states and the government has advantages over the old ideas of power. The Founders did think that a Republic could include a hereditary aristocracy, as did the Roman republic, but they forbade states from erecting aristocratic republics.

The Church is independent from the government and from business, the Church is an important sacred guide but not a profane ruler. The Church, as defined by the Theoevolutionary Church, has its own leadership, chosen by merit, to help guide our evolution to Godhood, no matter what form of government it finds itself dwelling in.

A voluntary 15 percent contribution of ones profane wealth to the Church seems little enough if the Church manages the sacred wealth, the sacred evolution of the people to Godhood. Without being grounded in the long, sacred, reach of religion, even productive civilizations do not last long, as history has shown, time and again.