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What If We Had To Pay “The Alice Tax”?

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Kansas City native Calvin Trillin is an American author, journalist and humorist. He is a long time food writer for The New Yorker.

In 2012, Trillin was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, published by Random House. He often speaks of his late wife, Alice, who was an accomplished author, educator and “long time muse to her husband.”

In the book, he writes about “the Alice Tax.” Never heard of it? On the eve of our tax deadline in America, consider this. Continue reading

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GREAT VERSES OF THE BIBLE: Matthew 22:21

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Today is April 15th. It’s tax time in the United States. It’s the deadline for filing your state and federal income taxes.

But it’s also a time when you hear resurrected phony arguments to relieve us from the responsibility of paying income taxes. In fact, “frivolous tax arguments” are so common that the IRS actually has an online resource listing the most common arguments and a legal refutation of each one. It consists of 56 pages! Here are just a few. Continue reading

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Should Christians Refuse To Pay Taxes?

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More Americans are upset about government waste and spending.  Businesses with a Christian world view are suing to opt out of Obama-care.  Christians are increasingly questioning not only the misuse of their tax money, but the moral abuse.   Continue reading

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Did Jesus Pay Taxes?

Is it just me, or does it seem like Christians grumble a lot about paying taxes?  

With recent news accounts about government waste, extravagant trips and questionable expenditures  of our tax money, it does make paying taxes a bit distasteful at times. 

But what would Jesus do?  Did Jesus pay taxes?  Continue reading

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