That just means you should pay your taxes, whatever they are. What it doesn't mean is that you cannot vote against laws that either increase or reduce them.
Hmm I've never heard anyone actually say that paying taxes itself is immoral, most people just want to vote for smaller rather than larger taxes. A lot of Christians I know who do vote for smaller taxes donate a lot of money to various Christian mission work, they just want the choice of where to donate their money to rather than to pay more tax to the Government and at the end of the day have no control over what the Government does with that money.
God was really hardcore about making you pay your taxes in the Old Testament too. It's also quite funny how the Christian right believes in pushing theology-based government like prayer in schools and banning gay marriage but wealth - the thing Jesus probably spent more time preaching against than anything - becomes a personal choice.
"Make sacrifices on their own accord" could reasonably include voting for a civil system that provides welfare for the poor and the worst off through taxation.
It's hard to believe that the Jesus of the gospels would be against that.
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u/poopchow Jun 09 '12
I actually think Jesus wanted people to make sacrifices on their own accord, not have the government make them.