‘In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman Empire. And everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem to the town of David, because he belonged to a house in the line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. ~~~~~”
This passage shows that bureaucratic incompetence and wasteful inefficiency of autocratic and plutocratic regimes is a historic constant. Disrupt entire populations and make them go back to their home towns(at least in Palestine anyway...I don’t know about the rest of the world at that time) to be registered and taxed. It would be better to register everyone in place then give them some token of receipt with a seal stating they had been taxed and registered. This was the way God chose to have Jesus birthed in Bethlehem as prophesied so I guess I won’t question his wisdom in this!
Sarah Palin has bigger yarbles than 99% of all other republicans. She is da woman!