IT IS OKAY
to collect tax from the people as long as it goes back (TO PEOPLE) in the forms of good and fair services. Unfortunately in our country, they are siphoned and converted into PORK BARRELS for the few pigs... i mean...people who chose to be elected.
IT IS NOT OKAY
to collect 32 percent tax from the middle class earners and spoil those rich investors with tax shields/incentives for reasons that they provide jobs to the middle class earners who are being heavily taxed by this government through its ZACCHAEUS. the B_I_R.
WHO IS ZACCHAEUS?
As a chief tax collector for the vicinity of Jericho, Zacchaeus was an employee of the Roman Empire. Under the Roman system, men bid on those positions, pledging to raise a certain amount of money. Anything they raised over that amount was their personal profit. Luke says Zacchaeus was a wealthy man, so he must have extorted a great deal from the people and encouraged his subordinates to do so as well.
Jesus was passing through Jericho one day, but because Zacchaeus was a short man, he could not see over the crowd. He ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to get a better view. Jesus, looking up and seeing him, told Zacchaeus to come down because he would stay at his house.
The crowd, however, muttered that Jesus would be socializing with a sinner. Jews hated tax collectors because they were dishonest tools of the oppressive Roman government.
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