30 Coins of Silver for a Slave: How About One Million Dollars for Every Amercan?

In ancient times, 30 coins of silver was the amount required to purchase a slave. Joseph’s brothers were paid 30 silver coins when he was sold into slavery. Judas was paid 30 silver coins to betray Jesus, signifying that Judas was no better than a slave. How about $1 million for every American?  Show Date: 12/24/2009 with Dr. Joyce Starr.

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Members of the US Congress cost considerably more today than 30 silver coins. However, as vividly demonstrated through the health care vote, most have a price and are proud of it. Try convincing children that ethics matter when those who govern are convinced that they don’t.

The question is:  How much is the government willing and able to pay in order to purchase an average American? Can an American be bought with $4500 in cash in exchange for a clunker car or is a first-time home buyers credit closer to the true price? (If you were lucky enough not to own a home during the home implosion crisis, you get a tax credit gift of $8,000. If you were stupid enough to own a home during that crisis and are now upside down on your mortgage, you have the right to suffer through foreclosure and the loss of your dreams.)

Clearly, Members of Congress believe that we all have a price. So what should it be? Here’s a suggestion: American billionaires – of which there are many – would be “asked” to contribute to a Pool of Wealth (POW) – with matching monies from the US Treasury. Generous donors would receive a reasonable tax credit of roughly 100 percent + 20 percent annual interest. Every American would be given – bought with – a one-time gift of one million dollars. Why $1 million? It’s a nice round number, and everyone wants to be a millionaire.

The majority of Americans could pay off their debts, purchase a decent home and buy an energy-efficient car. Home prices would soon go through the roof, as would everything else. But it wouldn’t matter, because we’d all be rich.

But even a million dollars has a price. In return for accepting one million dollars, you will be told where to live, how many children you can have, what they should study, how much meat, salt and refined sugar your family can ingest daily and how you must vote.  You will agree that all telephone conversations and medical inspection visits will henceforth be monitored.

Federal and state officials will have the right to force you out of your property whenever they decide that it can be put to better use. All of your movements inside and outside the home will also be monitored by public cameras. When the government insists to that you vote for global warming as the foremost enemy of the planet, you will text message a resounding YES, YES, YES, YOU CAN!

Eventually, you’ll be embedded with a chip that broadcasts your every emotion and thought. Chips will be mandatory and will be embedded at mandated national health clinics. Anyone attempting to avoid embedding or to remove the chip will be sent to the new National Prison in Illinois, where they will receive intensive re-education training by Chinese instructors.

When the government later demands that you pay 50 percent or more of your hardly-earned one million in a special add-on tax, you will gather your family, sing a song of praise and worship, and transfer the funds no later than noon the following day.

Since many of these initiatives are already underway in one form or another, isn’t it better to be paid hard cash for your participation?

Naturally, this is silly conjecture. It can’t happen in America. The best that most of us can hope for are 30 silver coins.

To a truly rich life,

Dr. Joyce Starr