“Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.”
No one is saying that citizens should not pay taxes -
the gripe is specifically against an INCOME tax, especially a “progressive” income tax, which punishes you more as you achieve more.
Dr. Keyes doesn’t say that we shouldn’t render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s. Quite the contrary.
But, God, and our founders, gave us a free republic in which the citizen is the sovereign, under God.
So, isn’t it time for us to find a way to tax ourselves that doesn’t undermine our liberty?
Isn’t a tax on consumption much more amenable to freedom than the current plank of the Communist Manifesto that is in place?
That was a fine thing to say when the civilized world was ruled by a monarch, an emperor, and they were trying to trap Jesus anyway. I don't know that the way he found to avoid the trap should be considered law.
But this is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic, and We The People are Caesar individually who elect our representatives and endow them with delegated authority to run our government. Our mentality should be of expecting the government to perform its assigned duties, not rendering to its hungry welfare state mouth like serf-subjects of the former Roman Empire.
Caeser is dead. Don't even go there.