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Somewhere around the 31st of December of 2007, an issue of the main Minneapolis MN newspaper contained a publisher-concocted editorial criticizing the existence of independent-contractor employees and condemning the employers employing those independent contractors.

In comparison to temporary-agency temps and full-timers on government-registered payroll declarations, the editorialist accused many independent contractors of "misrepresenting" their total incomes to the State revenue departments (as if that was any business of the subversive editorialist's to tinker with and stick his-or-her defiling media-penis nose into) and thus "not paying their fair share of withholding to the state revenue department" which revenue department diverts money to bigoted and prejudiced sweetheart-deal cronies for wasteful pork-barrel pro-feminist-sexist, pro-black-gang-member, pro-graffiti-vandalist, pro-homogay-pervert, pro-pseudoscientific-evolutionist, pro-abortion-murder programs, groups, and individuals.

Pr 26:17 He who meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
Mt 20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?'
Joh 21:22 Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!"
Joh 21:23 The saying spread abroad among the brethren that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?"
1Th 4:11 aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;

Such socialistic/communistic editorialist types also bewail the lack of 'one-size-fits-all' ghetto-izable, indiscriminate-poop-with-pudding/piss-with-pop everybody-together light-rail mass-transit and the so-called "need" to oust 'no-longer-productive' seniors out of their increasingly-inspection-flagged homes and thus forced to relocate to nearby townhouses and condos owned (in realty) only by the greedy and wealthy contractors who built them who alone have the actual title to both the buildings and land (in stark contrast to the elderly suckers who naiively buy into a mere sheet of association/cooperative paper) . . . deceitfully excusing themselves by using terms like "development" and "improvement" of the community, neighborhood, and environment. But in the twisted and deviant minds of the purported "land developers" and their upside-down/inside-out immentality, they presume that they are helping seniors by forcing needless and non-wanted, inconvenient and financially-devastating relocation

Isa 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
De 24:14 "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns;
Ps 12:5 "Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
Ps 35:10 All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like thee, thou who deliverest the weak from him who is too strong for him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?"
Ps 37:14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows, to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly;
Ps 140:12 I know that the LORD maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy.
Pr 14:31 He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Pr 30:14 There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.
Pr 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, maintain the rights of the poor and needy.
Pr 31:20 She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy.
Isa 10:2 to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isa 32:7 The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
Isa 41:17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Jer 5:28 they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Jer 20:13 Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
Eze 22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without redress.
Am 2:6 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes--
Am 5:12 For I know how many are your transgressions, and how great are your sins--you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
Am 8:4 Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end,
Am 8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
1Co 6:8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.
Ac 4:34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold

[Pertaining to that last verse, socialistic communism is not being described nor advocated in which poor seniors are forced to relinquish their private homes and private land for the old-agers-disrespecting arrogant greed of some tyrannical land-baron contractor or "developer"].

James 5:1 (paraphrased) Come now, you rich land-baron real-estate "developers," weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
2 Your high-priced rich-building properties have rotted, your vacated buildings are dormant and falling into disrepair, monthly utilities costs are piling up with no renters to pay them off, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days.
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.

A Christian tax-avoidance advisor enlightened me and my wife in a Milwaukee seminar a few years ago about what monies received by a person are taxable - and what monies are NOT taxable. Tax-free is the desired status, whereas tax-exemption is under the control of the IRS. Mr. Kershaw gave practical and sensible legally-legitimate counsel which basically related to what one voluntarily (though frequently inadvisably and needlessly) declares to the IRS and state revenue department as "income."

It of course is true that Federal Reserve Notes (in the form of dollar and other bills of various denominations) are printed by and the property of the Treasury Department of the Federal Government. Whatever Caesar requires for understandable and beneficial governmental operation should be rendered to Caesar, even though God ultimately owns even Caesar - to put it mildly. And that money goes to a government OF the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE, and FOR the PEOPLE, with justice for ALL. [Such declaration enrages devil-dog newspaper editorialists bent on causing public-nuisance dysfuntion....but to Hell with them]. Keep in mind that though such paper bills are of the government, part of that government consists of individuals those bills temporarily belong to which individuals temporarily possess and own (much like a highway driver temporarily owning the public-property space he is passing through on the road he is travelling on).

Peter makes the point that if one voluntarily becomes employed to any employer which employer has voluntarily become involved with government revenue officials in terms of government-incepted/government-run payroll structuring and registration, licensing, paycheck-depleting/paycheck-robbing? Social-Security (SS) F.I.C.A. withholding, unemployment-insurance and workman's-compensation programs and requirements comprised of burdensome bookkeeping forms and procedures....the one employed of necessity ALSO is then involved with all that frustrating, complex, bureaucratic red-tape regulation relating to the loss of their hard-earned money.

Most of us have been and continue to be involved to various extents with the government revenue departments through Social Security numbers and use. However, as is the case with wisely-apportioned (though not quarantined) limited religious expression in the general public, certain limited monies not specifically declared to the revenue department (nor which should be declared to the revenue department) which you and I frequently receive, save, or spend (whether non-serial-numbered coins or fingerprinted bills). . . .need not be considered declarable and taxable income. Case in point would be birthday gifts - and there are many other types of gifts or 'donations' of various amounts within and outside of the private family or company. Whether or not the State has a compelling interest to investigate and monitor transfers of whatever quantity of money of whichever citizens or non-citizens is and can only be determined by consistently honest, thorough, and open-minded Bible-based analysis.

A significant number of companies and corporations rightly do not like nor want to be tied down nor tied up with revenue-department statutory restriction and regulation. If they provide IRA or annuity options, health insurance, workman's comp for their employees. . .they want it on their own (and not heartless ignorant-of-the-situation government-bureaucrat) terms with their independent-contractor full-time or part-time employees.

See the freedom? Understand why godless and insensitive communistic/socialistic newspaper editorialists hate and despise such?

Moreover, the independent contractors themselves many times figure that it is in their own best interests for themselves to have stock-market-or-other sources of retirement funding, health insurance, and more to not only not be tied down to impoverishing the company and corporate execs they work for, but especially to not be mercilessly hampered and besieged by government revenue-department bureaucrats where even fines and imprisonment are possible entanglements from accidental infractions against suddenly-connived virtually-non-publicized no-warning-given regulations of phenomenally-nitpicky pettiness. [Certainly the satanic editorialists crave such tormenting harassment and disruption against both employers and employees].

If independent-contractor employees - who love their personal privacy and freedom of movement - are or sense that they will become weighed down with legislatively-concocted-and-enforced registration, licensing, and other bondage mechanisms (such as raised Social-Security Retirement Age, no C.O.L.A. adjustment, etc.) quite a few will understandably disassociate and disappear from the regular workfoce-employment grid.....while personal-privacy-plus-freedom-of-movement-loving corporate-exec employers who also do not want to be weighed down with legislatively-connived-and-required restrictions, licensing, and other enslavement devices will understandably and simply relocate their company production resources to China, Mexico, Korea, and elsewhere where such demonically-concocted inhibitions against independent-contractor employees do not exist.

And what consequential effect would that editorialist's anti-Scriptural socialistic/communistic presumptive postulation have on the overall local unemployment rate? The community, county, state, and even national economy? Negative retail sales? Regressive house selling and purchasing? It's bad enough when For Sale and For Lease signs on the lawns of houses and office buildings do not show the prices offered (everything else we buy shows the price on or near the item!), poor people will be scared to even ask the landlords and land barons what "affordable"(to-rich-land-developer) prices are, which the poor correctly ascertain they themselves cannot afford and refuse to go into foreclosure-insured-and-guaranteed mortgage debt buying into such.

The end result of the filthy and despicably-obnoxious anti-independent-contractor premise of such editorialists is massive misery against the devastated, which results in welcoming the hope for eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ in everlasting Paradise, forever separated away from damnable-theory editorialists destined for eternal torment in the fiery outer darkness.

Regrettably, we finite freewill beings cannot fathom nor fully appreciate "eternity." It wearies us to begin to attempt to comprehend the extent of it. We are accustomed to think in terms of time limits with a beginning and an end and nothing beyond that either way. In fact, though we understand the word "eternity" as to the basic concept, it is even rather irritating for us to think too deeply about it because of our beginning-and-end time-perception limitation.

When we get into Heaven eventually, the Lord will bestow a higher level of perception in us so that we will appreciate and understand eternity as He does.....similar to us now having a level of perception higher than the soul-less body-and-spirit animals of mere instinct. What no eye has seen nor ear heard, God has prepared for those who love Him. Even now. . .

1Jo 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life--

we perceive what appears to us as infinity in not only the macro-cosmos but also the micro-cosmos. Neverendingness is everywhere. Where the rubber exactly meets the road is not precisely detectable according to the atoms-always-in-motion Heisenberg Principle of intrusive-detection-disturbs-continuim factor.

Added to that, do you have enough time to contemplate and creatively do all you would like to? Are there books you'd like to read, movies you'd like to see, music you'd like to play through, a million different things you would like to do . . .IF you had the time? Throughout eternity the saints will have enough "time" to do it all!

But who are the saints? WHO is the best candidate to become the next President of the United States? The questionable-history lousy-voting-record weaker-sex/inferior-gender Hillarius? Mormon-cultist-but-international-religions-tolerant Rommey? The ambitious and witty Huck? Low-key Reagan-like Dunk the Hunt? Phoney-televangeist Eddy? Paul of Gaul? Tommy?

Like choosing a spouse, but rejected the others, we draw the line with Divinely-inspired discrimination.

If within the parameters of tolerance despite the recurring slight-enough deficiency, the verses:

Mt 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Mt 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?
Mt 7:5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Lu 6:41 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Lu 6:42 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

.......apply.

But if the immodest or overly-critical or whatever deficiency is greater than and outweighs the good and desirable aspects, then:

2Co 6:14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

.....applies.

One final thing.

If the supernatural events recorded in The HOLY BIBLE were mere myths, legends, and fairy tales, Christians - of all people - would be the first to not only investigate and expose but also declare to their deaths those recorded events as lying and dishonest fraud and corrupt fabrications of ridiculous imagination. Thus authentic and genuine Christians (along with those on the way to becoming Christians) are the only open-minded trustworthy scientists who are not constricted by superstitions nor prejudicial presumptions but instead are willing to (and actually do!) explore as much and as long as they can to discover the real truth about everything they perceive, encounter, and have become aware of. They alone thankfully do not have the bastard and bitch arrogance to misthink and act contrary against such rationality and reason.

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