David, the responsibility to provide for one’s dependents is a primary & fundamental responsibility for anyone with dependents who have no other resources.
No doubt; and I will add, “with love”.
It is not defined as “an anxiety.”
I do not understand what you mean by “it”, what is “it”, the responsiblity? If you are referring to my comment regarding anxiety will then I am referring to Christ’s command to not be anxious about food, drink or shelter. This is found in the last paragraph of Mattew 6. So if we do what I suppose is just and not pay our taxes as a protest against the government’s killing, we may end up very poor, but God will insure we have food, clothing and shelter - do not be anxious about these things as the gentiles do. God will provide.
Federal, State, Local tax agents really do have the power and really do execute that power to collect taxes.
OH yes! absolutely. And they have been brutal about it; often! However, just because one has a heavier hamer doesn’t mean he makes a better house or is right or moral
It may not be the brutal way that the ancient Romans collected taxes in an authoritarian form of government,
I submit to you, as one with much experience in this, it is and has been just as brutal as the Romans
but it is no less a real and realized power on the part of (a gentler, more modern) government.
Yes, unfortunately you are absolutely correct; albeit, when the Constitutiion was written we were not to have had our income taxed
Long ago it was easier for U.S. citizens to evade, avoid, escape, & delay paying taxes. The process was all snail-mail, court orders, and took years. Now, with electronic and enforcement tools available, and with aggressive intents on the part of governmental bodies dealing with contracting operating budgets, you best believe that the tax arms of these governmental bodies Mean Business.
Amen, you describe it well
Their purpose is not to create “anxiety” but to collect the money, & swiftly.
God bless you Elizabeth, but this is a half truth. The purpose is to collect money & swiftly; HOWEVER, the method is to create anxiety.
When they threaten, they have every intention of carrying through with the threat.
You personally may not consider it a real threat,
Oh, I do.
but others perhaps more acquainted with this first-hand know that it is not an idle threat, but Step One, Step Two, etc., progressively, until the money is collected by any means, including the seizing of personal property & real property if bank accounts have been emptied.
We do not have to answer to God for mega-events or governmental policies beyond our control.
Well, I don’t know about that.
We do have to answer to God for the level of responsibilities we fulfill to those closest to us – their health and safety, at the least.
For sure, but no where no enclycal no verse in the bible no logical person has said that "when helping people go to the government and let them have your money and let them do the helping. It is our job, especially, us Catholics to help people. We have sold our heritage to the devil; now he does our work. For shame
The Fourth Commandment applies equally to parents as to children.
And no, I hardly think that withholding taxes is even the most effective way to be a “Pro-Life” person, even if it did not result in jeopardy to one’s direct dependents. I think it’s a poorly targeted strategy, likely to dilute arguments rather than focus arguments and drive them home.
