Reply To: Taxes in Eretz Yisroel

Avira- the government is the government. I’m not convinced that we would be any better off under the British or the US or the Arabs. We want to live here, and there is a government that is making it possible. I don’t think that “if it’s not the best government ever, then I am exempt from paying all taxes while taking whatever I can from them” is a very cogent argument. We believe God runs the world, and this is how history has played out. Any government would require taxes and it seems disingenuous to claim that we are above the law. We want to love here, we need to use the governmental services, but since this isn’t the givernemtn that we handpicked, let the frei pay for our share. That argument doesn’t seem so yashar. Imposing on other people our share of taxes so we can benefit for free simply because we didn’t get to choose the government seems quite a convinient to take from others what they never agreed to give us.