✝ God First · Category #5 · 10 pts

Economic Stewardship

Sound money. No CBDC. No debt-slavery. Audit the Fed.

5 questions × 2 pts = 10 max · How scoring works · Back to scorecard

What this measures

Does this candidate honor biblical economic mandates — sound money, anti-usury, debt restraint, and opposition to globalist financial capture (Prov 22:7)?

Why it matters

Modern Christian conservatives stopped scoring on money roughly 50 years ago — about the time Nixon ended the gold standard. The result: a nation $35 trillion in sovereign debt, a Federal Reserve no member of Congress controls, and a coming Central Bank Digital Currency that would make every transaction permission-based. Proverbs 22:7 is policy as much as personal counsel. A free Christian people cannot be Federal-Reserve-printed serfs. This category catches the politicians who voted against every audit-the-Fed bill, supported COVID stimulus that quintupled the money supply, or shrugged when Operation Choke Point 2.0 began debanking Christian organizations.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender's slave.

— Proverbs 22:7

The 5 scored questions

Each question is binary (True / False / null). True earns +2 points. Null is "not yet verified from primary sources" — neither penalized nor credited. Use the toggle below to see the wording for federal, state, or local officials — the moral spirit is identical across tiers; what changes is the chair making the call. Read the tier architecture explainer →

View as: 5 of 5 questions apply at this tier

Q1. Candidate opposes a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and supports cash and decentralized crypto as legal tender

Q1. Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status

Q1. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.
Q2. Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve

Q2. Not scored at the state tier — federal-only question (no state-level chair).

Q2. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.
Q3. Candidate opposes deficit spending and supports a balanced-budget constitutional amendment

Q3. Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures

Q3. Candidate (mayor/council) has voted against deficit-bond issuances for non-capital city expenditures + supports balanced city budgets without service cuts via tax increases on residents
Q4. Candidate supports usury limits, anti-debt-slavery protections, and tithe-friendly tax structures

Q4. Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity

Q4. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.
Q5. Candidate opposes WEF/ESG/Davos economic capture and supports anti-trust action against monopolistic financial cartels

Q5. Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels

Q5. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.

Key bills, votes, and laws we track

Federal Reserve Transparency Act ("Audit the Fed") — Annual reintroduction since Ron Paul. Co-sponsors get full credit.
CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act (HR 5403) — Bans the Fed from issuing a CBDC directly to individuals. Cleanest CBDC vote in modern memory.
Balanced Budget Amendment proposals — Multiple state-by-state Article V convention applications tracked.
Gold Reserve Transparency Act — Mandates an audit of the U.S. gold holdings at Fort Knox + Federal Reserve banks.
Anti-CBDC state legislation — Florida HB 7049, Texas SB 2334, etc. — state-level resistance tracked.

Organizations and PAC vectors we score

Sound Money Defense League — Endorsements + grading tracked.
Mises Institute — Speaker invitations + book-citation tracker.
Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom — Voter-guide alignment.
World Economic Forum (WEF) — Membership, "Young Global Leaders" alumni status, or Davos attendance zero out this category.
BlackRock / Vanguard / State Street — ESG-mandate sponsorship or paid speaking engagements counted negatively.

⚠️ Position-level disqualifiers

Voted YES on any CBDC enabling legislation
Voted YES on the 2020 CARES Act, 2021 American Rescue Plan, or 2022 Inflation Reduction Act without offsetting deficit-reduction
Member of the WEF, "Young Global Leaders" alumnus, or attended Davos as a sitting elected official

A candidate matching any of the above is graded down to the floor of this category regardless of other answers in the rubric.

Where this lives in the scorecard

This category contributes 10 of 60 in the ✝ God First tier (60 pts total) and 10 of 100 in the grand total. See the full scoring system for the 60/40 weighting rationale and the letter-grade scale (A 90+ / B 80 / C 70 / D 60 / F <60).

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