Posted by MARTIN on September 05, 1998 at 16:21:22:
In Reply to: "residents" of Union states may be "subject" to income tax laws posted by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. on September 05, 1998 at 13:23:59:
If you are employed you are accepting federal benefits such as labor laws + minimum wage.
These laws protect us against slavery.
If you are employed you are engaging in commerce.
The old Amish sects must have known or know the law of war. The old Amish sects chose not to participate in the GOV. created by Lincoln and those who followed him. The U.S. law of war preserves religious institutions, but One must stay out of commerce.
One must live according to God's Law and self government or one will live by the law of man and man's government. Man's government will make sure that Christians strictly adhere to God's Law or man's law. If one claims to be at common law in a Christian venue, yet lives under an arbitrary, non-Christian system, and daily engages in commerce forbidden by Scripture, one is punished for his lies, contradictions, fraud, and deceit, which are unlawful in God's court. One cannot claim the benefits of God's Law and His Providence and still want benefits from Rome and commerce. God is long suffering and may take His own time but man wants his punishment now and has created man's courts to fulfill that demand.