My Laundromat
Apparently employs a fox, who works beyond this door:
St. Paul and I Agree...
Taxation is not theft: "Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves." -- Romans 13 The key idea implicit here, and the one that turned me on the subject of whether or not taxation is theft, is that "every soul" owes obedience to the "governing authorities." Now, if that is a debt I truly owe , then, when those authorities levy the taxes they need to do the job of governing, I owe them those taxes, and attempts to collect them certainly do not constitute acts of theft. And obviously it doesn't matter at all, from this point of view, whether or not I "signed" any sort of "social contract." (In fact, the history of political thought since the Reformation can be read as an attempt to find a secular rep...
Either that or a spiteful and quarrelsome woman. You'll either get your shins scrapped to the bone, or be yelled at in a very angry and argumentative way. Use caution.
ReplyDeleteApparently it is the name of a neighborhood crime watch group.
ReplyDeleteHuh? I guess that makes sense (for a name).
ReplyDeleteBTW, the translator on Mac's dashboard said that the word meant "vixen", so that is the angle I was going for. I imagine that it depends on the usage, and that in most cases it simply means "fox".
I don't speak/understand Italian. However, and this is kind of weird, I can understand spoken Spanish, but I cannot speak it. How, I do not know.