As public debate rages on the tax bill, and the richest 10 percent are given accolades for paying 75 percent of the taxes, I think of a person making, say, $12,000, and of how if that person puts in so much as $10, it is giving up money needed for food and rent. And, I think of a rich person, and of how he loses nothing needed for necessities when he places money out of all the extra he has into the tax coffers.
And, I think of Mark 12:41-44.
"And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
"And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
"And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
"For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."
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