Cherish the “Golden Goose”

The earthly entrepreneur is responding to the calling of our Founding Innovator, and by doing this work brings glory to the One who provided us all with great value when creating the universe from zero to done;

Joseph J. Bucci ——Bio and Archives--March 20, 2026

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As spring returns to our hemisphere, a wide variety of bird species are making their journeys northward, leaving the warmer southern regions to rejoin our gradually warming, freshly blooming landscapes. One unique species that is new to this migration pattern is the “golden goose,” also known as the entrepreneur (Walters, 2026). These are the people who work and sweat to build a business, and may actually find success in doing it. Their success is unfortunately met with stereotypical envy and cries from lawmakers who seek to tax these successful entrepreneurs and coerce them into paying what is called their “fair share” (WCAX News Team, 2026).

There seems to be nothing fair about it when we see data that confirms that wealthy people pay significantly more in taxes to support the social programs in certain locations (Walters, 2026). In the state of New York, for example, the top one percent of wage earners already account for more than 40 percent of the state’s personal income tax revenue (Reisman, 2026). In California, the top one percent supplies nearly half of all income tax collections (Walters, 2026).

It seems that the entrepreneurs and high wage earners have had enough of this approach. They are catching on and migrating out of these tax happy locations to areas where they are able to keep more of their hard-earned income for themselves (Unruh, 2026). It is not just these wealthy individuals migrating out of the tax-happy states – they are taking their businesses with them (Walters, 2026). These are businesses that also generate significant tax revenues in their previous location (Walters, 2026). This tendency to undervalue entrepreneurs extends far beyond state policy; it appears even within the church (Faith Driven Entrepreneur, 2026).

When was the last time church attenders heard a sermon lauding the contribution of the entrepreneur for their effort at building businesses that provide needed jobs and healthcare to people in their congregations? When was the last time your pastor compared the entrepreneur to the work of God as a co-creator and partner in fulfilling the admonition in Genesis 1:28: “And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth’” (Genesis 1:28 ESV). You haven’t heard these sermons, because your pastor and........

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