Ten Bibles were 'data
mined', using a computer to search for terms such as: tax;
taxes; tax collector; toll; custom; coin; tribute; money; etc.
The results are compiled here.
Keep in mind, the question asked is "Who Would Jesus
Tax?"... Not Paul, or Peter, or anyone else. The issue
here is what Jesus said, taught, or did, regarding taxes
and money.
Why ask "Who Jesus would tax?"
Number 1 - What were the charges against Jesus?
They began to accuse him, saying,
"We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying
taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
- Luke 23:2
Depending on the Bible version
you read, there were two or three charges made against Jesus.
Charge 1: "perverting
the nation"
Pervert:
to turn upside down, overturn, overthrow; Source: LawyerIntl.com
Charge 2: "forbidding
paying taxes to Caesar"
Forbid:
to command [someone] not to; Source: OneLook Dictionary
Charge 3: "saying
that he himself is Christ, a king."
Christ:
messiah, the expected king and deliverer. Source: Merriam-Webster
Christ:
the Anointed; Savior of the World; Source: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
There were only two charges, if we consider he was perverting
by forbidding paying taxes.
Jesus was, allegedly, against their internal revenue service,
their IRS, and claimed to be a king. False or not, these are
the charges against him.
Number 2 - What did Jesus teach about taxes?
Why would they accuse Jesus of "forbidding paying taxes"?
As tax collectors waited for Simon and Jesus to pay taxes, Jesus
asks...
  "What
do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect
customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?" When
Peter said, "From strangers," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons
are exempt. However, so that we do not offend them..."
- Matthew
17:25-27
Notice, Jesus considered himself, and Simon, to be "sons"
of the king, and exempt from tax. He didn't believe they
were "strangers".
Other Bible translations say, "Therefore
the children are exempt", and "Really,
then, the sons are tax-free."
How can we be sure Jesus was refering to ordinary citizens,
like themselves, as the "sons" who were tax
exempt?
Because, Jesus said "we"...
"Then the sons are exempt.
However, so that we do not offend them"
- Matthew
17:26-27
Jesus was teaching that the king's own citizens, "the
sons", or "the children", should
not have to pay a customs or poll-tax (toll
or tribute in some Bibles), because they "are
exempt". He believed only "strangers"
(foreigners) should have to pay tax to "the kings
of the earth" (governments).
Some
people claim that Jesus was refering to paying a temple tax, but
obviously, he was teaching about paying taxes to "the
kings of the earth", not temples of the earth.
Others say, Jesus didn't have to pay the tax because he was
the son of a king, or because he was a king. However, Jesus didn't
claim to be an "earth" king's son. In fact,
Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world."
- John 18:36
Jesus then tells Simon, go catch a fish, and in its mouth there
will be a coin to use for the tax payment. He tells Simon, "give
it to them for me and you." (Is this Jesus' opinion
of taxes? Essentially, 'So, they want a tribute? Then, they
shall have one - from a fish's mouth! ... I'm not giving them
my money!')
Some pastors have used this fish story to say that Jesus paid
taxes. This is hardly a feasible example to teach others, since
Jesus is the only one who can get a fish to produce a tax payment.
In truth, Jesus did not pay this tax from his earnings or purse.
And, it appears, he only paid to "not offend them".
Some claim that Jesus did not want to offend, because Simon had
already told the tax collectors he would pay. If so, this also
results in the fact that Jesus never intended to pay.
 Notice,
Jesus used a question to teach that taxes belong upon foreigners,
upon those who do not add to, or otherwise contribute to, the
kingdom's economy, unless taxed. So, it's possible the tax collectors
who were waiting overheard Jesus give Simon a lesson on taxation,
then reported him as a trouble-making protester. It's also possible
that Jesus posed this same question to other audiences while teaching,
because he was eventually charged with "forbidding paying
taxes."
Accept it or not, but according to Matthew, Jesus said, "the
sons are exempt", and he was including Simon and himself
("we") among the exempt. Jesus was teaching
that only "strangers" should have to pay taxes
to "the kings of the earth."
You may be surprised to know, the teachings of Jesus on taxes
are identical to the actual U.S. Income Tax law - only
foreigners (strangers), those with "foreign earned income",
are taxable.
Considering that our country's Founding Fathers, who wrote the
U.S. Constitution were very religious, and that the U.S. tax code
and regulations are required to be in line with the Constitution,
it's not surprising that US tax laws are also in line with Jesus.
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The Bible appears to contain another
modern-day tax law, that of exempting
churches from taxation. Could the Bible
be the reason for 501(c)(3) [the tax
status given to exempt churches and other
organizations], other than to gag
a church's free speech to "influence
legislation" as stated in section
501(c)(3)?
"In addition, we make it clear to
you, that it will be against the law to
put any tax or payment in goods or forced
payment on any of the priests or Levites,
the music-makers, door-keepers, Nethinim,
or any servants of this house of God."
- Ezra
7:24
Notice, the Bible regards "tax"
as a "forced payment".
Servants of the house of God (Mr.
and Ms. church employee), aren't
you now being taxed - with a "forced
payment"?
The Bible seems clear, "it will
be against the law".
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Jesus threw money changers
(bankers) out of the temple. [Mark
11:15, John
2:15, Matthew
21:12]
Some people have their
doubts as to what belongs to Caesar.
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Number 3 - Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar?
How did Jesus avoid the trap set for him, when he was asked this
question.
"The Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap
him in his talk.
They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying,
"Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way
of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial
to anyone.
Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes
to Caesar, or not?"
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you
test me, you hypocrites?
Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius
[coin].
He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them,
"Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and
to God the things that are God's." - Matthew
22:15-21
The trap was set for Jesus, so that either answer would have
meant trouble. Answering "yes" would have made Jesus
the "hypocrite" to some angry people, who did
not want the "King of the Jews" giving this sort of
approval to the Roman occupation of their land, thus, discrediting
Jesus. Answering "no" was likely to end with some form
of punishment for tax protesting, since his sort of influence
on tax revenues was undesirable to Rome.
Notice, this question was not necessarily about taxes in general,
but tributes to Caesar. There were three other kinds
of money available for use. Caesar's money wouldn't have been
needed at all, if it wasn't required for Caesar's tribute-tax.
So, Jesus could have simply been rejecting Caesar's system of
things.
Rather than answer yes or no specifically, as the Pharisees disciples
likely expected, Jesus avoids the trap altogether, by not answering
yes or no, but by placing this issue back on them. He gave everyone
present the opportunity to ponder whom they serve. It was his
test for them, to decide to whom their things belonged.
Because Jesus' answer can be argued both ways, in favor of taxes
(tributes) to Caesar, or against, here are some things
to consider:
- This was a trap, and Jesus knew it, so he answered accordingly.
He "perceived their wickedness". Providing
an affirmative or negative answer would trigger this trap, so
neither was given.
Result: Jesus didn't answer - "yes" or "no".
 If
Jesus didn't want to "offend them" before
(the tax collectors - while he was paying taxes with Peter/Simon)
then why would he offend them now, during a "test"?
- Caesar's Roman coin was considered blasphemous, for having
the image of a false god on it, Caesar himself, and the inscription
saying Caesar is the son of a god. And, assuming Jesus knew
the commandments, "Thou shalt not make thee any graven
image, or any likeness of any thing", and "Thou
shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them"
[Deuteronomy
5:8], would Jesus "serve" and "bow
down" to Caesar, with a tribute, to a false god -
as the "hypocrites" did?
- Jesus didn't have a coin. Apparently, he didn't have any
graven images, "nor serve them". So, he didn't
have any of Caesar's "things". Maybe, Jesus
was practicing the second part of his answer, things belong
"to God."
- If Jesus was understood to say "Yes, pay Caesar taxes",
then why was he charged with "forbidding paying taxes"?
Nowhere in the Bible does it say this was a false charge,
so why is it assumed? Jesus may have told many people, "the
sons are exempt." And, if the "King of the
Jews" was really for paying Caesar taxes, he should
have been Rome's favorite Jew.
Why is the Bible considered to be the word of God, coming from
God, and true, except when it comes to the part about "forbidding
paying taxes"? Who came up with the idea this wasn't
true?
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Why should we assume the tax charge was false?
The Bible has many quotes from Jesus, which contradict
paying taxes, and telling us we should not serve anyone,
but God. Are pastors afraid to point this out? If so, it
might have something to do with keeping their 501(c)(3)
status.
It appears the 501(c)(3) was designed specifically to silence
such information, showing Jesus was against taxation, and
forbid it.
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It's possible, that everyone present who heard Jesus already
knew the answer, God owns everything, including all wealth, because
he was standing among religious experts. They knew it was already
written.
 "The earth is the Lord's,
with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it."
- Psalms 24:1
Everything ... all wealth, all people, are the Lord's,
not Caesar's.
"In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth." - Genesis
1:1
God
created, Caesar did not.
"...the earth is the LORD's."
- Exodus 9:29
The "hypocrites" knew it, and so did Jesus,
all "things" belong to God. Nothing is Caesar's.
Money
What did Jesus say about the wealthy (those with much tribute,
like Caesar) and the system they choose to follow, money?
 Truly
I say to you, it is hard for a man with much money to go into
the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is simpler for
a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much
money to go into the kingdom of God. And the disciples, hearing
this, were greatly surprised, saying, Who then may have salvation?
And Jesus, looking at them, said, With men this is not possible;
but with God all things are possible." - Matthew
19:23-26
Evidently, "With men (who choose to serve the money
system) this is not possible." Is this why Jesus
said to give Caesar's things to Caesar?
If Jesus discouraged the accumulation of money (because a camel
cannot go through the eye of the needle), the result would be
less money available for government tax collectors, and thus,
less money for Caesar. (Note: The new, improved system
of slavery, which is money and taxes, requires that people work
as much as possible, produce, in order to raise revenue. We are
even trained from birth, to be like a chicken that pecks a button
for a reward, to chase after money. Without such training Caesar's
money-tax-slave system would shrink.)
Considering that Jesus was...
- Accused of "forbidding paying taxes" (Luke 23:2).
- Teaching "the sons are exempt" (Matthew 17:25).
- Ejecting the money changers - messing with International banking
(Mark 11:15, John 2:15, Matthew 21:12).
- Given a "test" for tax loyalty, by "hypocrites"
(Matthew 22:15).
- And, was even discouraging the accumulation of money, or using
the money system itself (Matthew 19:23).
It would appear that Jesus was a tax protester, and
against money, and the money-men's system. This type of behavior
would put Jesus on every government's bad-boy list.
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If
you think we are the only ones having this interpretation
of Jesus, see:
- "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jesus"
by Bell and Sumner, p. 198-199, 2005 Edition. It describes
a similar interpretation of the rendering unto Caesar.
- Jehovah's Witnesses also have a somewhat similar
take on this. Read their book "The Greatest
Man Who Ever Lived", in section 108,
published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
- the International Bible Students Association of
New York. If you call Jehovah's Witnesses they will
be happy to come to your home and give you a copy
of this book, free.
- Jesus-on-taxes.com
- This website has an entire book on the subject of
Jesus and taxation. It's titled "Jesus
of Nazareth, Illegal-Tax Protester"
and is free to download. This e-book is filled with
details and analysis, and as the title implies comes
to the same conclusion [there are legal taxes and
there are illegal taxes]. Considering that this author
did not data mine the Bible with a computer [or so
we assume], his book is amazingly thorough and complete.
- Other interesting observations can be read in the
online encyclopedia, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar
- Probably the most significant interpretation, also
found on Wikipedia, is an amazing take on the "Render
unto Caesar" moment...
"A second time when asked about Roman taxes Jesus
doesn't produce a Roman coin but asks his opponents
to. They are able to produce one complete with its
idolitrous image and blasphemous inscription. Having
once again exposed his opponent's divided loyalties
[by having them produce a idolitrous, blasphemous
coin] he responds that those who are Caesar's
should be given to Caesar and those who are God's
should be given to God." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_Money_Changers#Jesus.27_authority
* Notice, this interpretation renders people
loyal to Caesar to Caesar, and people loyal
to God to God. Money may not have even been
the object of Jesus' answer. Considering
that Jesus was trying to save people, and that he
wasn't very fond of money [Mark
10:23, Matthew
19:24], this is possibly the most accurate interpretation.
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Things to Caesar and things to God
Who made you? Was it God, or Caesar? To whom do you
and your "things" belong? To your Creator,
or to Caesar?
And, if we are made by God, and given by God all that we have,
isn't all that we have for our use, until God takes it back?
What is tax? Isn't taxation stealing - things God has
given us?
Because taxes are "imposed" - taxation is
stealing - by politicians and bureaucrats. The word "imposed"
is even used in the first section of the income tax law. See United
States Code, Title 26, Sec.1 Tax imposed.
"How is taxation stealing, if we give it freely?"
Because, it's forced on you, then forced from you.
Definitions:
Impose:
Source: Cambridge Dictionary
(FORCE)
- to officially force a rule, tax, punishment, etc. to
be obeyed or received
- to force someone to accept something, especially a
belief or way of living
Steal:
Source: Merriam-Webster
- intransitive verb: to take the property of another
wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice
- transitive verb: to take away by force or
unjust means
Steal: Legal
definition, Source: 'Lectric Law Library
- the wrongful or willful taking of money or property belonging
to someone else with intent to deprive the owner of its use
or benefit either temporarily or permanently. No particulary
type of movement or carrying away is required.
Impose = to force something
Steal = to take by force
Income tax is forced from you, even when you believe
you're giving it freely. If you doubt this, see what happens if
you don't 'hand it over', freely.
Control
Taxation is a method of control. The more money you make, the
more you must hand over to some Caesar. A graduated income tax
punishes ambition and removes competition, all the way to the
top. But, since Caesar's "things" include land,
the same treatment must occur to your real estate.
You only think you own your land, but you do not. You are just
a renter; 'Caesar' has control. Just see what happens if you don't
pay. You'll soon find it gone, forced from your possession (in
about 3 years), if you do not pay the rent known as property tax.
Notice with income tax, and property tax, we now have the first
and second planks of the Communist
Manifesto. Did you see how many of the other planks are also
in place? You probably had no idea that you were already living
in a communist system. You thought you were free. Little did you
know, you were born a slave - in a modern-day, high-tech, slave
system. Only the names have changed. Today, the accepted name
for slavery is taxation. (Slavery cannot be expanded
to masses of people, and a slave industry cannot grow, without
employing the technique of taxation.)
How would we pay for social services without income tax?
Keep in mind, how we manage to pay for social services (roads,
schools, etc) is a separate issue from what Jesus specifically
said about who is taxed, the "strangers",
and its separate from what is actually written in a country's
tax code.
"100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest
on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are
gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect
from government" -- Grace
Commission report (PPSS) submitted to President Ronald Reagan
on January 15, 1984 (also
here)
 If
"tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent,"
then obviously, something else is paying for the services. But,
this was already known many years ago - all of your income tax
money goes to the 'Caesars.' Today, they are called central bankers
and their private shareholders.
The central bankers began stealing your money long ago, using
it to further their control over you.
"President Grover Cleveland wrote to the Congress
on December 6, 1887 to focus the nation's attention on the problem
of burgeoning government surpluses. It seems that the duties levied
upon imports and excise taxes levied upon the consumption of tobacco
and spirituous and malt liquors so far exceeded the monies needed
to run the government that the President felt compelled to return
money to the people."
-- A Few Ideas for Tax Reform, Steven H. Atherton, TheChristianLawyer.com
The government had a surplus, before there was even an income
tax. Our country would have a surplus now, if it wasn't stolen
by bankers, and wasted on communist-style, imposed controls.
"But
he has nothing on!"
Our emperor, a fraud, stands naked.
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Jesus made it clear...
"No servant can serve
two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the
other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." - Luke
16:13
[Mammon: the god of riches (1913 Webster).]
Apparently, we can choose, the god of riches, Caesar, or
the God of creation, but no servant can serve two masters.
So, what did Jesus say we should do?
"You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him
only."
- Matthew 4:10
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According to Jesus, it is impossible to serve Caesar, giving
him your time, through tribute or taxes, and to also serve God.
It seems the Pharisees disciples were only temporarily stumped
by Jesus' answer, because he was charged with forbidding taxes,
anyway.
So, if Jesus was forbidding paying taxes, what could be his reasons?
Caesar, and his things; control
Jesus knew that people had land, property, and even children
taken, for slaves, if they could not pay Caesar's tax (taking
children was done by many cultures). In the case of males, to
be taken while still young, then indoctrinated into the tyrant's
fighting force, or enslaved. In the case of females, to be taken
as additions to harems for the rulers, or as army prostitutes,
or also enslaved. [In recent times, the Japanese were accused,
by their now elderly victims, of taking women as prostitutes for
their military.]
Jesus also knew that a Caesar would spend his tribute [taxes]
on war, oppression, and building monuments to himself, the
false god. To get a good, graphic idea of what forced tax
payments were like during Jesus' time, see the movie The
Nativity Story. To read about some modern-day examples of
forced tax collections, just search the Internet for "IRS
raid".
According to non-Christian, Roman historians, some people were
even put to death when they could not pay Caesar's tax. Likely,
these were some of the people that ended up on crosses, and thrown
to lions in a Roman coliseum. Maybe Christians were favored as
lion food because, at the time, they were still living by Jesus'
teaching, to serve one master, God.
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War - Another Control
What does a 'Caesar' do after taking your tax money? Isn't
war frequently one of "the things that are Caesar's"?
Over the last 100 years, the United States alone has been
averaging one war for every 16 years [most of which
were illegal wars, and all fraudulently induced - to be
used as a tool for herding ignorant people in desirable
directions]. This doesn't even include the smaller
actions, such as bombing
Serbians, or the enabling things, such as the U.S. government's
drug-running, and funding of the Iran-Contra
'affair', which Caesars Reagan, Bush and Clinton, were involved.
Of course, these men are not true Caesars,
but only temporary puppets. True Caesars keep much lower
profiles, and use henchmen for doing their dirtywork.
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Warning: This is very graphic, but then you have
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Also, this does not include the invasion, and chasedown, of Panama's
leader, Noriega.
Note that both Bush and Noriega worked for the CIA. Were they
drug-dealing partners that had a fallingout? Or was this puppet
Caesar, Bush, just using, then disposing of his tool? Wasn't
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein also at one time involved with
the CIA? Isn't this a pattern? It appears that the CIA works for
the true Caesars.
Thou shall not kill.
If we give our tax money willingly to a 'Caesar', haven't we
then enabled him? Haven't we then become a part of the killing,
and thus violated the commandment "Thou shall not kill"?
But, we do kill, paying for the death - with our taxes. The funder
of death is just as guilty as the one who performs the killing.
Look into your mirror to see destruction incarnate. Not everyone
is with you. Some have seen the destruction.
"We are war tax resisters because we have discovered
some doubt as to what belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God,
and have decided to give the benefit of doubt to God."
- Pastor John K. Stoner
"To God", just as Jesus answered the "hypocrites".
Number 4 - What was Jesus doing to be accused
of "forbidding paying taxes"?
Who
was Jesus teaching?
Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious
sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to
listen to Him; -
Luke 15:1
Could it be that Jesus really was forbidding paying taxes, to
Caesar's own tax collectors? They were frequently in his
audience. The message must have been very popular with collectors,
because it kept them "in the habit of coming close to
Him."
What kind of people did Jesus keep company?
'a friend of tax collectors and
sinners!' [Jesus describing himself] - Matthew
11:19
What did Jesus think of these internal revenue agents,
the tax collectors?
"Why do you eat and drink
with the tax collectors and sinners?" And Jesus answered
and said to them, "It is not those who are well who need
a physician, but those who are sick." - Luke
5:30-31
Notice, Jesus considered tax collectors to be sick. And notice,
tax collectors are in the same class as sinners.
Tax collectors were considered bad, because they took possessions,
as "Caesar's things," by force. They stole it. Even
today, no one enjoys 'giving' to a tax collector.
Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector, believed that he himself
had done wrong. So, he gave half of his "goods"
to the poor, in order to right his wrong.
Zacchaeus told Jesus...
"If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore
four times as much." - Luke
19
Why the tax charge against Jesus?
Possible reason #1 - Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector
Getting in the way of a chief tax collector's duties was a good
possible reason for Jesus to be charged with "forbidding
paying taxes." Zacchaeus, being a chief collector, was
probably responsible for producing significant revenues to Caesar's
system. And, the example Zacchaeus was setting for his junior
collectors was surely not desirable to Rome. All of the senior
tax bosses would have been very upset about this.
Possible reason #2 - Matthew, tax collector
Jesus went out of his way to stop taxation, by getting the tax
collectors to follow him.
As Jesus went on from there, He
saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector's booth;
and He said to him, "Follow Me!" And he got up and followed
Him. - Matthew
9:9
This is also a reason Jesus could have been charged with "forbidding
paying taxes." Matthew, a tax collector, left his job
and abandoned his duty of gathering Caesar's taxes, in order to
follow Jesus. And, it's likely other tax collectors did the same,
since they were "in the habit of coming close to Him
to listen". What do you think Matthew's boss said to
his boss' boss about this abandonment of duty? And, after the
head boss, Pilate, found out, surely some of these tax collectors
also ended up hanging on crosses. [Maybe it was a tax collector
hanging on the cross next to Jesus, and the week before, and the
week after.]
Head Tax Boss
 Pontius
Pilate, was the Roman prefect and the head man in charge of collecting
taxes for Rome.
"The procurators' and prefects' primary functions were
military, but as representatives of the empire they were responsible
for the collection of imperial taxes" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilate
Pilate must have known that many of his imperial tax collectors
were leaving their duties, to be taught by Jesus. Pilate would
have noticed a lack of tax collections coming into tribute headquarters,
and would have investigated this decline in revenues. He would
have been very angry with Jesus for teaching his collectors anything
which contradicted taxation, and for using parables which put
tax collectors in the same category as prostitutes.
"Truly I say to you that the
tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God
before you." - Matthew
21:31
Many of today's religious leaders will tell you, these tax collectors
were bad because only some of them took more than they
should. But, Jesus didn't say only some tax collectors were sinful.
Jesus referred to the tax collectors, because the duty
of the tax collector is a sin, the taking of that which does not
belong to them, and serving another master, other than
God.
All tax collectors [those who take by force] are sinners. This
is why collectors were "in the habit of coming close
to Him to listen". Their own guilty feelings dragged
them there, to listen to Jesus.
Jesus used another parable to show even Pharisees considered
tax collectors to be like "swindlers", and the "unjust"...
The Pharisee stood and was praying
this to himself: "God, I thank
You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers,
or even like this tax collector."
- Luke
18:11
Jesus' teachings were not responsible for such attitudes against
tax collectors. If Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector had "wrongfully
exacted" taxes, and harassed citizens, then surely his
junior collectors under him, were following his lead and wrongfully
exacting taxes.
Tax Collectors
Pilate may have even encouraged the wrongful exacting of taxes,
to help instill a greater fear, and to enforce obedience.
What today's IRS chief tax collector, Mark W. Everson, calls "compliance."
"Our working equation at the IRS is simple: service plus
enforcement equals compliance. Not service or enforcement, but
service and enforcement."
- IRS Commissioner, Mark Everson - 1040
Instructions, 2004.
IRS working equation:
Service + Force = Compliance
Apparently, compliance is their goal. No one at the IRS really
cares what the code actually prescribes, nor will explain why
the code contradicts what they say. According to the IRS, some
of the code is frivolous.
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Chief Tax Collector, IRS Commissioner, Mark "Compliance"
Everson
The Income Tax
is so confusing that even the chief tax collector
needs software to help him with his tax return.
News Flash, Mr. Everson: The commercial
software is incorrect, and even this is provable,
and easily demonstrated.
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Frivolous arguments? (The truth always
works)
The U.S. tax boss seems to believe "they
don't work", but isn't as sure when it comes
to doing his own taxes.
"IRS Commissioner, Mark W. Everson, concedes
that the process has become overwhelming for most
taxpayers. ... He filled out his own return, Everson
said, but he used commercial software to guide
him through it." - Palm
Beach Post, Business
Mark Everson, IRS' chief "expert,"
depends on software to do his taxes, and the software
depends on the code. But, Everson says
that some of this code shouldn't be used. (Why,
is it frivolously prescribed?) In particular,
the IRS doesn't like the code which is found in
Sec. 861. Mr. Everson may want to do some data
mining, so he can see - code is always
precise.
Mark Everson:
Find "excluded income", "eliminated
income", and "income that is
not considered tax exempt". And try
finding these.
(Use the Gov't Printing Office search engine:
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov)
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Today's tax collectors, IRS, also harass citizens, for
"wrongfully exacted" tributes. IRS collectors
who increase revenues for their uncle Sam get promotions. To read
accounts of IRS harassment, search Clusty.com for "IRS
harassed", "IRS harassing", "IRS abuse",
etc [use quotes around your phrases].
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question is "Who would Jesus Tax?" - Not Paul.
- Romans 13 was written by Paul (Saul), a Roman.
- The Romans, including Paul, killed followers of Jesus.
(How many other murderers have been made Saints?)
- Paul was not quoting Jesus in Romans 13:1-13:7.
- Paul was not one of Jesus' disciples. He was self-proclaimed.
- Paul did not know Jesus.
- Some would say that Paul fits the profile of a hijacker.
For more on Paul, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus
Having pointed this out, it's worth mentioning that Paul may
have simply written Romans to appease Roman authorities. He may
have even been a patsy, Emperor Nero had him killed.
However, since Romans 13 is quoted so frequently as a reason
to pay taxes, we'll examine it. You may want to start by reading
the parts in question, Romans 13:1 to 13:7, and a little before
and after.
Notice, Romans 13:1 to 13:7 says, "be in subjection
to the higher authorities" for they "are ordained
by God", and to "render... tax".
But, Paul wrote this, Jesus did not. (Oddly, the son of God did
not write down anything. At least, nothing we are allowed to see.)
Should people believe God approves of government authorities
even when they are tyrants, such as Hitler, Stalin, or the Communist
Chinese government? Are such criminals "higher authorities"
we should be "in subjection to"; ordained by
God?
Remember, the Founding Fathers of the United States were very
religious, but even Thomas Jefferson, the third President and
chief author of the Declaration of Independence, said, "Resistance
to tyrants is obedience to God." (Here we have an example
of someone ordained by God, the 3rd President of the United States,
Thomas Jefferson, saying it is obedience to God to resist tyranical
government.) Wasn't this exactly what Jesus and his disciples
did?
If Paul really did write Romans 13:1-13:7, then why did the
Romans kill him? Wouldn't such words, which gloat over authority
and taxes, have made Paul one of the Emperor's star citizens,
too, like Jesus who supposedly said pay taxes?
Maybe not...
"He [Paul] utterly opposed any idea that the law was
binding on Christians, declaring that even Peter did not live
by the law."
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus#Arrest_and_death,
and see Gal 2:14.
*Notice, it wasn't God's law that Paul and Peter would not live
by, it was Roman law that he opposed [presumably, including taxation].
In Romans 13:7,
Paul [supposedly] writes...
"Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor."
But then, in Romans
13:8, Paul writes...
"Owe nothing to any one except mutual love; for he who
loves his fellow man has satisfied the demands of Law."
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So which is it, subjection and rendering taxes, or mutual love,
that satisfies the "Law"?
Actually, the part about tax in Romans 13:7 wouldn't
be so off the mark if as according to Jesus, you the taxpayer
are a "stranger", a foreigner. This would
have put it all in context with the parts about custom,
fear, and honor - of the foreign land you
might be visiting.
According to Paul, "the demands of Law"
are satisfied with love, not taxes or tributes.
Considering that, more than once, Paul used his Roman citizenship
to get out of trouble, he may have said or written a number
of things to stay out of prison. Or, it would appear that
someone else later altered or added Romans 13:1-13:7.
Romans 13:1-13:7 could also be the work of some emperor's
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The altering of the Bible,
which seems to have taken place in Romans 13, perhaps by
some past Caesar, or his transcriptionist, appears to be
as blatant as this image of Jesus and little Pedro.
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It is odd that many are so quick to accept Romans 13:1-13-7,
believing in subjection and obedience to authorities is good [governments
supposedly ordained by God] when Jesus, and nearly all of the
apostles were killed by government authorities.
If you want to learn more about what happened to the apostles,
read these...
"Be in subjection to the higher authorities"-
Romans 13
(Someone forgot to tell Jesus, and his apostles, and
his followers)
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Service + Force = Compliance
"To protect the honest
taxpayer, we have strengthened enforcement of the tax laws."
-IRS Commissioner, Mark W. Everson
"...everyone who
does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light,
lest his works would be exposed." - John
3:20-21
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Nazis also wore black uniforms,
but didn't cover their faces. Was this government "ordained
by God"?
Homeland Security? Sounds familiar. |
Immediately after being accused of perverting
the nation, of forbidding taxes, and claiming a kingship...
Pilate asked him, saying, Are
you the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, You say
it." - Luke 23:3
Notice, Jesus didn't tell Pilate he was a King. He only said,
"You say it". This is more easily understood
as "You said it, not me." (Only 3 out of 14 Bibles say
Jesus said "yes" to this question). Evidently, Pilate
didn't interpret his answer as a "yes", or at least
didn't care if he did, because then...
And Pilate said to the chief priests
and the people, "In my opinion this man has done no wrong."
- Luke 23:4
Apparently, Pilate didn't believe Jesus was claiming to be a
king, and may have assumed "forbidding paying taxes"
was a false charge, made by jealous Pharisees as an excuse to
have him killed. Pilate considered these priests who were accusing
Jesus to be troublemakers, and obviously wanted to be rid of them.
Because, when he found out that Jesus was from Galilee, he sent
them to Herod, the ruler of Galilee. But Herod also found Jesus
not guilty and returned him to Pilate. (Apparently, Herod
didn't believe Jesus was claiming kingship, either.) Then, Pilate
again found Jesus not guilty.
Evidently, agreeing that Jesus was blameless, even Pilate's
own wife said...
"Have nothing to do with
that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream
because of Him." - Matthew
27:19
But the priests continued to demand that Jesus be killed. So,
Pilate gets some water and washes his hands, literally, in front
of the crowd, of any responsibility for killing Jesus. He appears
to have no belief Jesus is a criminal, nor any care for the desires
of the crowd, or the angry priests. He doesn't want to be involved.
So, Pilate then says...
"I am innocent of the blood of
this righteous person. You see to it." - Matthew
27:24
It should be pointed out that shortly after Pilate said, several
times, that he saw no reason to punish Jesus, Pilate eventually
has Jesus scourged. (Scourging is considered much worse than your
ordinary whipping.) Why would Pilate scourge Jesus, after saying
"I can't find this man guilty of any crime"?
Such harsh punishment wouldn't fit the crime, if Pilate just said
"this man has done no wrong."
Unless... Could it be that Pilate just heard
new testimony - maybe, from some of the tax collectors
- that Jesus was indeed teaching tax-forbidding, to other tax
collectors, and to other people? If so, Pilate would have heard
his tax collectors were abandoning their duties to follow Jesus.
This would explain Pilate's change of mind, from declaring Jesus
not guilty, to then scourging him.
Pilate's primary concern, or one of them, was getting tribute-tax-money
into Caesar's treasury.
Because all governments want to keep the tributes coming
into the treasury, all governments have a motive to remove any
teachings of Jesus which forbid paying taxes. This could be the
reason why, there is only one tax lesson, "the children
are exempt", that can still be found in the Bible. If
Jesus was surrounded by tax collectors, as stated in the Bible,
there should have been many more tax lessons taught by Jesus.
Many early governments could have removed his other tax-forbidding
lessons, if they existed, from subsequent translations and transcriptions.
Even the individual transcriptionists, those who wish to be servants
for the elite, could have removed Jesus' tax advice, in order
to further their own careers.
 Jesus
wanted to die in order to fulfill the scriptures and his purpose
on earth. So why then, when Pilate asks Jesus, "What
is truth?", would Jesus not have gladly told him, but
instead remained silent as the Bible indicates? Wasn't it his
job on earth to spread the truth, even to Pilate?
It's only speculation, but perhaps Pilate's question, "What
is truth?", involved the charge against Jesus of forbidding
taxes. If so, it seems that Jesus would have answered the question
gladly, to ensure his date with destiny, to fulfill the scripture.
Of course, none of the disciples were around to hear Jesus' answer,
so how they even knew what these two discussed is a mystery.
Was the question, "What is truth?", really about taxes?
And, was Jesus' answer removed from the Bible by the governments
that needed this information removed (which happens to be all
governments)?
- Charged with "forbidding paying taxes,"
- Teaching people "the children are exempt", or
" the sons are tax-free,"
- Telling others to "Give... to God the things that
are God's", which even the scriptures say is everything,
including all people and wealth,
- Teaching (interfering with) tax collectors, who "were
everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him,"
- Telling the tax collectors to abandon their duties and "Follow
Me!",
- Affecting Pilates tax revenues, which was surely noticed in
Caesar's treasury,
- Driving the money
changers out of the temple, calling them "a den
of thieves",
- Teaching taxpayers that "No servant can serve two
masters,"
- Teaching people to "Do to others as you would have
them do to you", which happens to include not taking
[stealing] by force anothers property [for tributes or taxes],
- And considering that neither Pilate, nor Herod, cared if Jesus
claimed to be a king,
It should be obvious... Jesus was killed for
being a tax protester, for forbidding paying taxes, for interfering
with tax collectors and thus, tax revenue, and for interfering
with the temples banking industry, the money changers. He was
killed for being against the system, the money-tax-slave
system.
"Give ... to Caesar the things that are Caesar's."
Jesus was beaten; scourged; given the 'walk of shame';
then slowly executed.
 Evidently,
Jesus was guilty - of forbidding paying taxes. He was a tax
protester.
Wouldn't Good
Friday, or maybe Christmas, be a better national tax due-date
in the United States, instead of April
15, as a reminder to all the slaves - Thou shall not resist?
Is this what really happened?
Pilate: "What is truth?"
Jesus: "The children are exempt."
Pilate: "I'm going to crucify you!"
Truth?
According to Jesus, only the strangers [foreigners]
are to be taxed, the children are exempt.
If you can find a Bible translation which quotes Jesus
as teaching otherwise about taxes, contact
us and we'll add it here.
You can read the list of taxable income, for the U.S. Income
Tax, in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 26, Sec. 1.861-8T(d)(2)(iii).
The list, prescribes that only foreigners, and foreign
earned incomes are taxable.
To find this list, simply go to the US Government's
Electronic-CFR:
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov
- Click 'Simple Search' on left side
- Enter 26 for Title number
- In search box enter: income that is not considered tax
exempt
- Click 'submit search' button.
Result:
There is only one section in the Code of Federal Regulations
which prescribes the income that is not ... exempt - i.e.
income that is taxable.
You'll see that only "foreign earned income" is
not exempt for a US citizen.
There are many similar results, such as tax instructions. For
example, "how to determine taxable income".
Or, you can approach the income tax from the opposite direction,
by finding what is not taxable. Simply search for "eliminated
income", "eliminated items", or "excluded
income". The result is section 861.
The Income tax is fraudulently implemented. The Code
does not lie.
The US Tax Code and Regulations have been data-mined, and all
the "codes" for determining taxable income are specifically
written in sec. 861. Anyone with a computer can confirm it. To
see more, examine the Diagram,
and read In
a Nutshell. Then examine some of the data-mining
results. To see a How-to-Search demo, watch these short
videos.
If you think, "There's no way this can be true. Thousands
of tax experts would have exposed this by now." Maybe...
but only if the "experts" had been reading the tax code
and regulations. Most experts don't use either. The so-called
"tax experts" use Publications, which are printed
by the IRS. These Publications tell your expert what
to do. The experts avoid statutes and regulations.
Don't believe it? Just visit any tax preparation business and
ask if they have the US Tax Regulations, or the Internal Revenue
Code (statutes), or... do they just use Publications. [Quite
likely, they don't even have Publications anymore. Now, they simply
rely on tax software, fraudulently written, to supply the amount
of tax imposed.]
Did you know that data mining can be done with every Title of
Law, and in every country which uses codification?
Leb wohl, Konsortialführer! Der Schwindel is over.
The jig is up.
* Please report any errors using "found error"
in the subject line. Thank you.
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Notice
which Commandments are violated by 'paying' taxes (i.e.
'giving' forced tributes):
"What do you think, Simon?
From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From
their children, or from strangers?" Peter said to him, "From
strangers." Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children
are exempt."