03-09-2012, 04:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-18-2015, 01:47 AM by Director Michael.)
Two principles are involved here:
(1) In order for a ruling government to be considered legally legitimate, it must follow its own stated laws. For example, the Lubavitcher Rebbe stated that it was decreed from Heaven that the communist regime in the Former Soviet Union would fall, because the rulers did not follow the laws of their own national constitution.
(2) If a citizen in a free country does not want to pay his legally obligated taxes, he has options to organize a political movement to change those taxes (while continuing to pay the levied taxes in the meantime), or move to another country.
(1) In order for a ruling government to be considered legally legitimate, it must follow its own stated laws. For example, the Lubavitcher Rebbe stated that it was decreed from Heaven that the communist regime in the Former Soviet Union would fall, because the rulers did not follow the laws of their own national constitution.
(2) If a citizen in a free country does not want to pay his legally obligated taxes, he has options to organize a political movement to change those taxes (while continuing to pay the levied taxes in the meantime), or move to another country.