Ummm . . . No confessions, guys. The tax-sucking pigs are watching!
"Render to Caesar," folks. (Matthew 22:19-21)
DUH
heh - and the icans are just doing the jobs Americans don't want to do...SS is going broke cuz it's a fraud...
Ping!
FairTax would catch most of this......
2005 Nominee, Dumbest Statement of the Year. ;)
Like any of this is new... this article must get re-written in some form or another every April. I always love the union guys who like to work "off the books". Hah! And then they tell me I shouldn't shop at Walmart.
There is just something utterly immoral about the idea that every time money changes hands it should be taxed. They really could legally go after kids running a lemonade stand, or kids who get $5 checks from their grandparents. That is just plain evil.
Withholding funds from the federal government by individual taxpayers by any legal means is a PATRIOTIC DEED...
Income tax is the real don't, ask don't tell policy.
My barber has an interesting business -- no cash register, no checks -- just a bankroll of bills in his pocket. I'm positive he reports every haircut to the IRS.
The point that is not made in this article is that the underground economy is 1.5 Trillion dollars!
Do the math: If the federal government constitutes 20% of the economy, and does not collect roughly $300 Billion dollars (I personally think it is a much larger amount, BTW) it believes it is owed, then the underground economy is $1.5 Trillion!
The use of private "tax collectors" to collect revenue should not be allowed in a FRee society. In large part, the FRench revolution was caused by the King's "private tax collectors" arrogant, bullying behavior. None of them survived the Revolution, BTW.
The National Retail Sales Tax is the only way to fairly raise government funds and at the same time tax the underground economy.
The government should make no money off these small odd jobs when the same people are paying a lion's share of taxes on their main sources of incomes. Not to mention taxes on materials, fuel, and other various taxes. I say we should commend them, not punish them. They are keeping some of the blood supply away from our cancerous tumor of a government.
And good luck to them in getting the internet sites to agree to report winnings, seeing as how they're all currently located offshore.
I always interpreted the "render unto Caesar" to mean obey the government's laws as long as they don't conflict with God's law.
As for the slave thing, that's a bit more complicated, but not by much -- after all he did bring the Israelites out of Egypt. The idea was not that God or Jesus or even Paul thought slavery was just fine and dandy, but that the goal of becoming free from slavery (or any OTHER goal) should never supercede the spreading of the gospel.
It's conceivable that Jesus would want Slave X to stay under Master Y instead of starting a slave revolt because he wants slave X to preach the gospel and convert Master Y to Christianity who would then, among other good things, free his slaves voluntarily without bloodshed being necessary, assuming this was possible under the law of the land in question.
God may have other inscrutible reasons for wanting this or that slave or group of slaves to stay enslaved, the point being not that God is pro-slavery but that his mission/role for each individual and each nation comes before any political or social goals an individual or nation might believe in.