The US is a financial sovereign. It has the monopoly over its currency: You don’t need the rich ! Govments within a financial sovereign can decide/agree in congress to pay for things they want with the only limit being that the thing/service is available in that currency. It’s called MMT, as american as apple pie, and no MMT is not communist.

Why do the rich hate MMT? Because they get paid risk free interest by offering the guvment their money.

Read ‘Temples, tithes and taxes’ by religious scholar Marty Stevens. Impressive scientific book on intersection of religion & economics.

Temples were also banks / fiscal offices in those days. The conflict is imagined, unless maybe early class analysis.