US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, suggests imposing a tax on unrealized capital gains. This means stock gains will be taxed even when they have not been sold. It also means that taxes will be owed when the value of a home appreciates, even though it has not been sold.

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

my view actually is that was added by romans who wanted jews to pay taxes later, jesus never said that, wouldn't have made sense, he never would have became popular or had a following from mostly poor farmers if he advocated paying the huge unfair taxes the riomans levied. Jesus was a precurser to the zealots who did eventually rid Jerusalem of the Romans although that lasted only 4 glorious years.

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Your forgetting that he never said that. He never said to or not to pay taxes. He simply aksed whose face was on it. One is free to create his own money and barter. Nevertheless, this wasn't what Jesus' mission was.

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jesus spoke in parables, it was clear what he meant by that, or what the romans that wrote it later meant.