Taxes

Given that Jesus Himself said that we should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, I don't have a problem with the idea of paying taxes generally speaking. While the larger paycheck might theoretically render a large tax bill, the inverse also may be true. In fact, no income means no taxes paid, which means no money to pay the rent so the idea of making no money merely as a technique of tax evasion seems somewhat ludicrous in that light, as taxation in of itself is somewhat neutral to my mind, apart from the argument of whether the tax be just or unjust enough to merit the dumping of tea boxes into Boston harbor by persons costumed as native Americans. I vaguely recall some talk years ago of some man who was making a big point of not paying taxes at all and writing books or issuing publicity of some type about how to accomplish the status of tax evader and why eluding the IRS would be a meritorious thing to do. I cannot quite recall who that person was. The idea was discussed in our family and dismissed as entirely ludicrous, a foolish tempting of fate. Perhaps someone is still out there fishing for that piece of information but I have completely forgotten who that was.