This story found in Matt. 14:13-21 is hardly a recipe for economic equality. It was one meal, and it was a miracle. Hillary Clinton (4/26/14 speech) failed to mention the crowd response to Jesus’ feeding so many with so little: “Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, ‘This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.’ So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone.” (John 6:14-15). The crowd’s reaction to Jesus’ miracle is exactly what Hillary and other liberals want. If we feed, clothe, house, and educate them, they will make us kings. But instead of withdrawing from the people, they desire to embrace them with promises they cannot keep in order to make them dependent on the State forever. The time will come when its promises cannot be kept because the productive members of society have been plundered of their ability to create wealth. The incentive to work, create, and profit from their labor has been destroyed. The people most in need will suffer the most when this happens. Politicians like Hillary Clinton pick up on the desire for security and dependency from the masses and use them for political gain: The idol state uses the language of compassion because its intention is a messianic one. It finds the masses harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd, needing a savior. The liberal State actually believes it can do miracles, and it doesn’t need any actual loaves of bread or dried fish to perform them. All it used to need was a printing press, cotton and linen sheets of paper, and barrels of ink. Today, the State only requires a few key strokes to perform digital alchemy—to turn “stones into bread” (Matt. 4:3-4). Jesus the feeder of 5,000 also said that “man does not live by bread alone” (Matt. 4:4; Deut. 8:3). The same schools that provide “free” breakfast and lunch to poor school children using other people’s money prohibits the other type of feeding that Jesus required, that is, “every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4b). Jesus never issued a call to plunder the rich to pay for the needs of the poor even if the intention to help was seemingly for their good and the people wanting to help had the best intentions.
- Gary DeMar, “Hillary Clinton Uses Jesus to Promote the Welfare State,” (4/30/2014), http://americanvision.org/10726/hillary-clinton-uses-jesus-promote-welfare-state/#sthash.hHSlorYC.Gn1tpT4p.dpuf

The Zacchaeus story [Luke 19:1-10] provides and example of "repaying" a debt of corruption and injustice and of making restitution  for past sins.  Exo. 22:1 says that whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it must pay back four or five to one.  Num. 5:5-7 says, "When a man or a woman wrongs another . . . the person shall make restitution for the wrong, adding one-fifth to it, and giving it to the one who was wronged."  The repentant tax collector, Zacchaeus, gave half of his possessions to the poor and paid his victims four times the amount he had stolen.  In Virginia, the legislature took a step in 2004 toward "atoning" for the state's massive resistance campaingns in the 1950s and 1960s to the enforcement of federally mandated educational equality between the races.  They did so by creating a scholarship fund for blacks whose schools were shut down between 1954 and 1964.  Racial restitution or reparations could take the form of expanding educational opportunities for young black Americans who are still trapped in substandard schools.  Education is the modern asset most equivalent to the old "forty acres and a mule" start-up investment.
 - Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening:  Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America 164-65.

Long-term debts, such as school bonds, are against the Bible (Deut. 15:1f.; Rom. 13:8).
- Ray R. Sutton, Who Owns the Family?: God or the State?, 169, at http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks.

The Head Tax of Exo. 30:11-16 is the only tax in the Bible which the state may levy on its citizens. There was no income tax, no property tax, no inheritance tax, no hidden taxes, no sales tax, no Social Security tax, no inflation tax. It is a flat-rate tax: everybody paid the same low amount. Individual citizens of Israel were taxed 110 grains of silver annually, regardless of earnings. It took care of the judicial system, the police force and the military. Tithes and offerings, not the head tax, took care of the health, education and welfare of the citizens of Israel, and the tithe was not paid to the state.
- Joe Morecraft III, With Liberty and Justice for All: Christian Politics Made Simple 117-18 (1991).

According to the Bible, health care, education, poverty relief and charitable work are personal concerns, not institutional concerns, and are to be administered by individuals, not by the state, through the various tithes. The 10% per year social tithe of Lev. 27:30-33 and Num. 18:20-24 is to be individually directed to education and health in the community, and the prorated 3.3% per year poor tithe of Deut. 14:28-29 is to be given directly to the poor without middlemen.
- Martin G. Selbrede, Taxation, Liberty, and the Bible (October 30, 2008), at http://www.chalcedon.edu/papers/Taxation.pdf.

The Bible teaches that education is a parental function and God-centered, not a state function and state-centered.  Deut. 6:6-7 makes clear that education is not only a parental function, it must be anchored in the Word and Law of God.  This is what “raising your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4) means, a command also directed to the father.  In education, children are to be “under the hands of the father” (I Ch. 25:3,6).  The phrase “to pass one’s children through the fire to Molech” (Lev. 18:21, etc.) refers to devoting one’s children to the state, to acknowledging the priority of the state, as Rome later insisted.  The faithful of all ages reject such claims, proclaiming that “children are the heritage of the Lord” (Ps. 127:3), not wards of the state.
- Martin G. Selbrede, Education, Liberty, and the Bible, (October 2, 2008), at http://www.chalcedon.edu/papers/Education.pdf.

The only time that education of children is taken on by the State is when the people of God are held captive to a pagan government (Dan. 1:1-7). Jurisdiction of education is given to parents (Deut. 6:4-9). A legitimate educational function of the State would be military academies.
- Gary DeMar, Ruler of the Nations: Biblical Blueprints for Government 81 (1987), at www.freebooks.com/: html, DjVu.

The Lord’s tithe (Num. 18:21-28) and the poor tithe (Deut. 14:27-29) took care of the basic social functions which, under modern totalitarianism, have become the province of the State, namely, education and welfare. The Levites collected the tithe, gave a tenth to the priests, and kept the rest for themselves. Education was one of the functions of the Levites. The Levites not only assisted the priests in the religious duties related to the sanctuary, but served as officers, judges, and musicians (I Chron. 23:1-5). The tithe is an acknowledgment of God’s kingship; in I Sam. 8:4-19, the consequences of a rejection of God’s kingship are cited: totalitarianism, oppression, a loss of liberty, and an increased cost of the State.
- Rousas John Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law 52-56, esp. 55 (1973)

The implication of Matt. 25 [Matt. 25:34-40] is that when the government gives Medicare and Medicaid; when Head Start can help otherwise-neglected children, and when housing is made available to those who would otherwise have no shelter, the government is doing it for Jesus.
- Allen Colmes, Red, White & Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong 213 (2003).