… [The following excerpt is from my book, “Rescuing Religion from Republican Reason.”] “An income tax is the most degrading and totalitarian of all possible taxes. Its implementation wrongly suggests that the government owns the lives and labor of the citizens it is supposed to represent. Tellingly, ‘a heavy progressive or graduated income tax’ is… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Deuteronomy 24:19-21
Greed & Oppression of the Poor (Bible Study) – Part 6
[To read this study in its entirety, please go to the Bible Studies page on this website and download the PDF.] Taxes/Redistribution of Wealth Leviticus 19:9, “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not… Read more »