Chicago teacher on tax hike: "Give up the bucks!"

14 Some soldiers (public employees) asked him, “And what should we do?” He told them, “Be satisfied with your pay, and never use threats or blackmail to get money from anyone.”Luke 3:14 (GW)

I wonder how many others feel this way? I am not sure how many in the crowd echo the sentiments of this particular school teacher but I would like to know. Who do you think pays your salaries? Do you think the unions have a stash of cash somewhere that they can just give out whenever you cry for more? Do you not know that it is the tax payer who pays your salaries? It is also those same tax payers whose children you are paid to teach. It is those same taxpayers you are telling to "give up the money:. Here is a thought how about you give up the money?

Tax Day Has Arrived

And here I thought I lived in a "free" country

Taxes are first mentioned in the bible in the command (Ex 30:11-16) that every Jew from twenty years and upward should pay an annual tax of "half a shekel for an offering to the Lord." This enactment was faithfully observed for many generations (2Ch 24:6; Mat 17:24).

Afterwards, when the people had kings to reign over them, they began, as Samuel had warned them (1Sa 8:10-18), to pay taxes for civil purposes (1Ki 4:7; 1Ki 9:15; 1Ki 12:4). Such taxes, in increased amount, were afterwards paid to the foreign princes that ruled over them.

In the New Testament the payment of taxes, imposed by lawful rulers, is enjoined as a duty (Rom 13:1-7; 1Pe 2:13, 14). Mention is made of the tax (telos) on merchandise and travellers (Mat 17:25); the annual tax (phoros) on property (Luke 20:22; Luke 23:2); the poll-tax (kensos, "tribute," (Mat 17:25; Mat 22:17; Mark 12:14)); and the temple-tax ("tribute money" = two drachmas = half shekel, (Mat 17:24-27; Compare Ex 30:13)).

—Easton's Illustrated Dictionary

Old Testament Money Scale

Gerah        Shekel    Mina   Talent
1
20           1
1,000        50        1
60,000       3,000     60      1     
New Testament Money Scale
Mite  Quadrans (Penny)  Copper Coin   Denarius
1/128
2          1/64
8          4               1/16
128        64              16            1*  
 
* One day's wages. The Temple tax was 2 days' wages 
 
Money Values
Denomination    Troy Ounce   Silver Value    Gold Value
Gerah             .0182          $0.36           $18.20
Shekel           3.64            $7.28          $364.00
Mina            18.2           $364.00       $18,200.00
Talent          91.0        $21,840.00    $1,092,000.00
Drachma (Greek) 27.0           $270.00
Bekah             .182           $3.64                 

—Easton's Illustrated Dictionary

Yep it is true taxes are as old as time itself. Eagle 1040 out!

Chicago Style Politics

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

My eagle eye spotted this over at The people's cube.com.

Government Prints New Currency To Ease Government Debt

With the rate the government is spending taxpayer money,
the dollar will soon be worth about as much as Monopoly money.

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