Immigrants good for me and you? Bad? How to make a good answer that is accurate?

It doesn't matter what kind of state it was. Jesus didn't leave a lot of loopholes for you to weasel through.

Jesus didn't say anything about a welfare state. He said pay your taxes.And He didn't say anything about "legitimate purposes". He said pay your taxes. No doubt some of those taxes were used for purposes that He wouldn't approve of - but He just said pay your taxes.And here's you who doesn't want to pay taxes for things He did approve of.

You keep saying "robbing". You need a lesson in English 101.

No, that's false by any definition of theft. Jesus told His disciples that the lady who gave two mites was giving more than the rich men who gave bags and bags of gold. It isn't how much you give in absolute terms that counts - it's how much you keep for yourself. By Jesus' principles, it's the rich men who are "stealing' by not giving as much as they should.

I'm certainly not going to waste any time on YouTube. I did Google him and he appears to be an idiot. I see where you get your empty- headed rhetoric from.

Nobody is forced to give. You can't whine about forcible taxation because Jesus told you to pay your taxes. There is no force, there is no theft. There's only obeying Jesus.

For somebody who claims to know what you're talking about, you don't seem to have much to say except silly mantras about "theft". Do you have any thoughts of your own?

If you can make that case, why don't you do it instead of just parroting a lot of right-wing rhetoric?

You're losing the plot. I pointed out that you are posting nothing of substance. You have done nothing to back up your claim that Jesus was wrong. You have done nothing to back up your claim that taxation is theft. You have done nothing to back up your claim that the Roman Empire was "different" so you don't have to obey Jesus.

Simple. You're misusing the word "theft'. Jesus advocated paying your taxes. Period.

Jesus said pay tour taxes. What part of that do you not understand?"Voluntary" giving is a copout. It's often used as an excuse to give less than you owe.The lady with the two mites gave all that she had; the rich men "voluntarily" gave much more in the absolute sense but much less according to Jesus; their "voluntary" giving was inadequate. Jesus told another rich man to sell what he had and give it to the poor; it doesn't get more socialistic than that. In the Old Testament, the widow gave Elijah all of her food.

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Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

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i.e. there is a return on your investment.It's a very important Biblical principle that you're spitting on.

The Bible speaks of the tithe belonging to God. Not paying it would really be theft.

That's irrelevant. Ten per cent was always the minimum. As Jesus said, the ideal is 100%. Yes, that's the problem, as I already mentioned. Christians often try to weasel out from Jesus' ideal.

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Deuteronomy 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

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Stranger = immigrant. Fatherless , widow = poor.

Says who? God doesn't have a covenant with the state. The individual is responsible for living up to the terms of the covenant. You're contradicting Jesus. He said pay your taxes. If that was theft, why would He tell you to do it? It would be nice if you actually quoted scripture once in a while, seeing as you're almost always wrong about what it says. That's still irrelevant. The ideal is 100%.

If God never changes and His law is absolute, it doesn't make much sense that something would "become" mandatory at a certain place and time and then "become" voluntary at another place and time.