Jesus On Taxes

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  • Ned Netterville

Mar 11, 2019

MY DEFINITION OF CAPITALISM CAPITALISM (NOUN): An economic system of free markets, which results when and where there is freedom from any forcible or coercive (viz., government) intervention in markets. No other economic system can possibly evolve from such freedom. Freedom, not capital, is the one and only indispensable element of capitalism. Capital is important but even without any capital to start an entrepreneur can acquire capital by profiting from engaging in free exchange. Private property is crucial, but only because it is a crucial element of freedom. Private property could exist in the absence of freedom, but freedom cannot...

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NED’S PLAN: HUGE BENEFITS FROM SLAVERY REPARATIONS Mar 11, 2019

I propose substantial financial reparations be made by the U.S. federal government to all the descendants of African-American slaves and Native American tribes (or the tribes' individual members) whose lands were taken by force or fraud. Most importantly, I propose that the trillions of dollars necessary to pay for reparations be derived from the sale of all federal assets: land, buildings, equipment, infrastructure, gold and silver reserves, oil reserves, off-shore resources, businesses like Amtrak, U.S.P.S., etc.--everything! The federal government's ownership of assets constitutes one of the most damaging impositions on individual liberty there ever was. Reparations for the federal government's...

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PAX VOBISCUM = TAX ME NOT! May 1, 2018

Who doesn't long for world peace? To me, it all seems so simple. If each of us declined to use force in the conduct of our human affairs, peace would reign, ipso facto. Peace by this means may have been the main point of Jesus Sermon on the Mount. The problem is we didn't get it, at least not yet. We are forceful, violent people, and we don't seem inclined to do anything about it. One way we routinely and obliviously use force to get what we want is by taxing others. Taxation requires the initiation of force to facilitate...

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THE LORD’S PRAYER (REVISED) Mar 25, 2018

THE AMERICAN LORD'S PRAYER (With apologies to Jesus)   Our Father Who art in Washington Hallowed be thy name--Uncle Sam. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in America. Give us this day our daily benefits and entitlements, And exterminate our enemies in Syria, Yemen, Iran and North Korea. As you did in Vietnam, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo and Dresden. But lead us not into freedom, And deliver us from our responsibilities, For thine is the tuition grant, And the housing voucher, And the flood insurance And Social Security, Now and forever Amen.

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MALUM IN SE, MALUM PROHIBITUM Mar 17, 2018

NED'S BLOG #23, FROM 12 FEBRUARY '06 The wonderful Wikipedia website provides the following definitions: "Malum in se (plural mala in se) is a Latin phrase meaning wrong in itself; it is an act that is illegal from the nature of the act, i.e. it is inherently evil without any fact of its being noticed or punished; such crimes as larceny, rape and murder are considered malum in se. This concept was used to develop the various common law crimes." This term is to be distinguished from malum prohibitum (plural mal prohibita), which means wrongs that are merely prohibited, i.e....

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BEYOND NAP Jan 2, 2018

The Teacher of Galilee: A Seer Who Really Did See This guest post was written by anthropologist and longtime-libertarian, Spencer Heath MacCallum. Minor changes to the author's original version were made to punctuation and formatting only. Read the original here: http://explorersfoundation.org/archive/maccallum-spencer-golden-rule.pdf A WAKE-UP CALL FOR CHRISTIAN LIBERTARIANS “How tantalizing,” economist William H. Peterson wrote some years ago, “to find that virtually all the world’s major religions exalt the Golden Rule in one way or another.” He reproduced the different wordings he had read as follows: CHRISTIANITY Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. JUDAISM Do not...

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GOOD BOOK, BAD BOOK, GREAT IDEA (Book Review, plus) Dec 2, 2017

THE HALF HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD: SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM INCLUDING BAPTIST’S AFTERWORD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HXM0R9Q/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 By Ned Netterville AMERICA’S HOLOCAUST After reading Baptist’s book, I’m convinced the most horrendous conditions any group of Americans ever endured was being forced to do back-breaking work as a slave, a “field hand,” on a cotton plantation in the South during the period 1790 to 1860, as often as not ending up being killed (murdered?) by those conditions. Baptist’s book is an excruciating expose of what it was like to endure and often succumb to the horrendous torture inflicted on those slaves...

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JESUS NEVER PAID TAXES! Nov 1, 2017

JESUS NEVER PAID TAXES As was said by an itinerant-Internet preacher: "The Lord Jesus was also the only honest businessman in the world because he paid his taxes." Dear Mr. Preacherman: That is a damn lie. There are lots of honest businessmen, and Jesus never paid his nor anyone else's taxes. Taxation is theft. It is identical in every respect to the felony crime of extortion--except the state immunizes its collectors from prosecution. Paying an extortionist only ensures he will keep at it. The sophistry that denies taxation is theft would never fool Jesus. Especially in the first-century Roman Empire,...

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AN ODE TO IRWIN SCHIFF May 5, 2017

TOM PAINE, NATHAN HALE, PATRICK HENRY & IRWIN SCHIFF? What do these four Americans heroes have in common? They are all courageous American patriots of the highest order. But for raw courage in the face of ravenous enemies, Irwin Schiff stands head and shoulders above the other three. Author James Smith recently posted an article here at Liberty.me on the federal income tax. It is well worth reading. Here is the link to it; Its title is in the address: https://jamessmith.liberty.me/filing-taxes-is-only-slightly-more-preferable-than-prison/ I left a comment on his article. Here it is: Not for all of us. My number one American patriot...

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MORE ON THE LYNCHING OF IRWIN SCHIFF Apr 13, 2017

I wrote the following as a comment on an article published on the FEE website titled, "Even Economists Can't Do Their Own Taxes," by Antony Davies and James P. Harrigan. If you truly dig into the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the history of taxation and tax laws in America, including the Supreme Court cases pertaining thereto, you will discover two important facts: 1) You cannot possibly be legally liable for the individual income tax (or any of the several other employment taxes) because the Constitution with its Bill of Rights precludes the government from levying and collecting an income...

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ALEXANDER HAMILTON: TAXAHOLIC! Dec 27, 2016

Commenting on the decline of true liberalism, libertarian giant Ralph Raico wrote the following shortly before he recently passed away, “In America, the liberal country par excellence, the chief aim [of classical liberals] was to fend off incursions of government power pushed by Alexander Hamilton and his centralizing successors…” Profound and deleterious consequences of the actions of that damn taxaholic continue to haunt Americans to this day. As America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton’s policy of taxing whiskey sparked the so-called Whiskey Rebellion. “The tax was resisted by farmers in the western frontier regions who were long accustomed to...

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YOUR SCREWED! FOLLOW THE MONEY! Nov 21, 2016

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INCOME TAXATION I first want to declare that I don’t believe in the Constitution. I am with Lysander Spooner on that score. It confers no legitimate authority on the federal government. Furthermore, many of its intended (or pretended) benefits have been lost to congressional encroachment and courts’ misinterpretations. Nevertheless, it is still regarded as “the supreme law of the land,” by most Americans, with adoring lip service paid to it by virtually every lawyer and politician. Nor do I believe taxation is ever legit. It is extortion. No individual has a rightful authority to...

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SEEKING A JOB WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Nov 17, 2016

Ned Netterville, DSDE, EDACS, I-TP, PhD Address & Phone Number redacted PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS Licensed and Certified Swamp Draining Engineer Licensed and Certified Dangerous Animal Control Specialist IRS-Certified Illegal-Tax Protester (1971 to Present) PhD in Austrian Economics EDUCATION & DEGREES AWARDED Okefenokee School of Swamp Engineering, Doctor of SDE Dunlap (TN) Exotic and Dangerous Animal Control School, EDACS Internal Revenue Service Designated Illegal-Tax Protester, I-TP Lone Oak (TN) Intl. School of Common-Sense Economics, PhD D.C. PLAN My dissertation for the terminal engineering degree (DSDE) in swamp draining technology is a plan to drain the D.C Swamp and keep it drained. It...

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IRWIN SCHIFF AND WIKI DECEPTION Oct 6, 2016

The following is an excerpt from a conversation I’ve been having with a tax lawyer/CPA regarding the Wikipedia “article” on a famous tax protester and libertarian, Irwin Schiff. Here is the Schiff article: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Schiff) When I tried as a Wiki editor to add some insight from my personal knowledge of Irwin to the Schiff article, a tax lawyer-CPA who goes by the name of Famspear on the Web and is also a prolific Wiki editor objected to my edit for not conforming to Wikipedia’s rules for creating and editing articles. When such disagreements occur between two editors, a “User talk...

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Germans 13:1-7 Jan 2, 2016

GERMANS 13:1-7 My dear Jewish brothers and sisters, Let every person be subject to Hitler and the governing Nazi authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and the Nazi authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Whoever resists Nazi authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For the Nazi rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the Nazi authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive the Nazi's approval, for Hitler is God’s servant for your good....

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TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT Jul 11, 2015

I heard a lot of noise and looked over at the stove where a red tea kettle appeared to be fiercely boiling such that I feared it would explode. I ran to shut off the burner, but no burner was lit. I lifted the top off the kettle thinking to release the pressure. Peering inside I was amazed to see a gaggle of very little people screaming and shouting and hurling invectives and anything handy at each other. It wasn’t hard to discern even amidst all that turmoil that the little combatants were arguing and fighting over the matter of...

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MATTHEW 17: A FISHY TALE! May 26, 2015

If I had the time, I could cite literally dozens of recognized Christian scholars who have said Jesus paid taxes, pointing to the Gospel of Matthew, Ch. 17, verses 24-27, and the remarkable events recounted therein as proof. Here is the text of that passage from the King James Version of the Bible. And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings...

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ROMANS 13: A FLIMSY REED May 5, 2015

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you wish to have no fear of the authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive its approval; for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do what is wrong, you should be afraid, for the authority[ does not...

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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS OF NAZARETH Mar 11, 2015

THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO NED (Subtitle: Jesus onTaxes and Tax Collectors) by Ned Netterville This is a condensation of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke (the so-called synoptic gospels) focusing on what Jesus said or did pertinent to taxes and tax collectors. The author has added some material where understanding requires elaboration that is missing from the Gospels. Ned’s reconstructed material logically follows from the character of Jesus as fully developed in all four Gospels. Why focus on taxes and those who collect them? Because Jesus clearly did. The words “tax(es)” and/or “tax collector(s)”...

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THE GOOD SAMARITAN Feb 27, 2015

Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) is often pointed to by progressives as justification for government social-welfare programs and spending. Of course Jesus’ Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) used his own resources exclusively to succor the poor stranger he found beaten and robbed and left to die along the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. Rather than supporting government programs, the Parable speaks volumes against them and their dishonest and dishonorable methodology. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them...

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