Most of us were taught that government exists to provide for the common defense—a military and a social-safety net—but the actual budgets show that our government has become a big insurance company that also runs a navy. Read more»
—Ben Sasse January 9, 2014
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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I’m wondering if most of us were taught that. Perhaps those Ben’s age and older from the Midwest, but I have a suspicion that’s not true. My experience is that if you show a younger person the pie chart they print in the back of the tax booklets (which they haven’t seen before because they get taxes done at a place that gives them a 32% interest loan on their refund check) they usually say “that’s insane, why do we waste so much money on the military industrial complex?”