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In other news from Buck, production of potatoes is up 366% from last month; production of grains surged 530%; and it has just been learned that the production of light consumer goods is to be quadrupled from present levels within the next three months. Buck urges you to thank Comrade Stalin for...

I did no such thing. Make up your mind. Is work voluntary or not? You said it was. Is paying taxes voluntary or not? You said it was. These are your arguments, so I have no need to make anything up. You didn't need to use the word "aggregate" for it to be applicable, unless you're suggesting...

You didn't use the word aggregate and I never claimed you did. I don't recall you ever asking me about my use of the word, so I apologize if you did and I missed it somehow. Initially you made a universal statement: all work is voluntary and thus all taxation is voluntary. I disputed this...

Sure. Your statement was about the aggregate and my statement was about the individual. This has been explained in detail three or four times now. Feel free to consult those previous posts and reply to their substance instead of simply repeating your claims and ignoring my responses. Thanks.

I've heard of much better results for law student and police officer.

Still not identified. Baseless and unsupported claims. In both cases I continued the arguments until you gave them up. You know why you gave them: I refuted your replies and then you replied to me making exactly the same arguments. I continued refuting your arguments on factual and logical...

Throughout the New Testament Jesus refers to material things as fleeting and perishable, contrasting them with heavenly treasure that is eternal. I would say his indifference toward the material things in the Caesar story is entirely consistent with that message.

As always. I approach you grinning and laughing at you in order to amuse myself. And I smile now at your referencing your own intellectual dishonesty in using dated budget numbers in a failed attempt to attack my language.

My post combining the discussion speaks for itself. Again, you're not point out any of these supposed inconsistencies or contradictions, and the digest post dispels all of your previous claims that I was being inconsistent or contradictory. And YOU, Buck, gave up every single one of the...

Given that the clerics asking Jesus the question were trying to get him to say something damning against Rome, I doubt Jesus' words were or were intended to be mocking.

There actually is no federal right to waive a criminal jury trial. The court and the prosecutor both have to consent for a defendant to get a bench trial.

You've got the whole discussion reduced to one post. Why don't you point out these supposed contradictions in the post instead of just making a baseless claim?

Let me help you out again. "The vast majority of the tax money still isn't going to charity for the poor.." See that, Buck? Poor. P-o-o-r. "The "poor" aren't poor." See that, Buck? I explicitly distinguish "poor" from poor. Note p-o-o-r with quotation marks is not the same as p-o-o-r without...

You're being intellectually dishonest right now in pretending you weren't following the discussion. Let me refresh your sieve-like memory, from beginning to end: Buck: "how can you be poor if you can heat AND cool your own food!?!" Tokeprep: "I'll make this really simple for you: I'm not trying...

How is that an endorsement of government action? All that Jesus says is that paying the Roman tax is lawful, not a religious problem for Jews. Maybe if we use a different example? A court in Massachusetts declared that upskirt photos were legal. That decision was not an endorsement of upskirt...

How can we ensure that the constitutional right to a trial by jury is enforced if no one shows up for jury duty?

Switching...? So yes then, you're telling me you cannot apply an initial premise implicitly throughout a discussion. I'm sorry about that, I'll try harder to cater to your special needs in the future. You're already so confused about everything--I really do hate to make it even worse by not...

That would certainly be consistent with Jesus' teaching and preaching throughout the gospel, since his focus is explicitly on individual altruism. On the other hand, there is never any endorsement of government action.

I made a clear initial distinction between what was generally true and the exception. It's implicit throughout the rest of the argument. There's no need to hedge my words every single time I bring it up when you already know what I think. Or are you incapable of comprehending that without...

They wouldn't need any representation in a non-existent system, so that doesn't make any sense. We're presuming that they created the system for this argument.