However, it wasn't me that wheeled out Thomas Jefferson to support an argument against the right to levy taxes.
This thread is now so wrapped around itself that I can't recall who brought up ol' TJ. But I can safely say he'd be utterly opposed to the form of extortion that passes for taxation in today's world.
In Jefferson's perceptions, allowing one's self to be taxed by a government one consented to was merely noblesse oblige. Likewise, fighting a government that attempted to impose unjust taxation was also considered a duty.
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Were the old Testament god around today, he'd be locked up for advocating genocide.
No worries. Some of Yahweh's contemporary followers in the Christian and Jewish worlds are still trying to follow his instructions to the letter.
