Brody File Exclusive: Mike Huckabee Says More Christian Tithing Will Lead To Less Government

In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Mike Huckabee says if Christians would tithe more than they do currently, the federal government wouldn’t be as big and intrusive financially in people’s lives. Huckabee told us, “If, as a believer I think the real responsibility for taking care of poor people, people who are hungry, children who have real needs, if I truly believe that that ought to be a church function not a government function and I think government’s too big and I want smaller government, you know how to get it? Make my giving bigger to the church. So if my giving to the church is small then guess what? I’m going to have a bigger chunk of government coming after my paycheck.”

More below on this from Mike Huckabee. We did this interview in Cedar Rapids Iowa earlier this week.

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Mike Huckabee: “A lot of Christians are very frustrated that the government is taking fifty cents out of every dollar for taxes. Have they ever realized that if all the people who said, ‘I’m a believer and I love Jesus.’ If they gave God a dime out of the dollar and they took care of the poor and they took care of the widows and the orphans as we’re supposed to biblically, government wouldn’t be so big and government wouldn’t be doing these programs and government wouldn’t be taking fifty cents out of the dollar so this is a bigger issue than the church issue. Here’s what it really comes down to: if as a believer I think the real responsibility for taking care of poor people, people who are hungry, children who have real needs, if I truly believe that that ought to be a church function not a government function and I think government’s too big and I want smaller government, you know how to get it? Make my giving bigger to the church. So if my giving to the church is small then guess what? I’m going to have a bigger chunk of government coming after my paycheck

Mike Huckabee: “If the church and its members won’t even entrust God with one dime out of each dollar, then guess what’s going to happen? The government is going to come, as they are now, and get about fifty cents out of every dollar in order to do what the church ought to be doing.”