The tax is mild enough to be semi-voluntary; individuals are free to choose whether or not to commit the inactivity that triggers the tax.The "exaction" - Justice Roberts' word - "looks," he laconically said, "like a tax in many respects." It is collected by the IRS, and the ...
The phrase "another famine" indicates a recurring challenge in the ancient Near East, where famines were not uncommon due to the region's dependency on seasonal rains. The Hebrew word for famine, "רָעָב" (ra'av), signifies not just a lack of food but a severe crisis that ...