He knows his monthly income has gone up because his tithe to his church has risen.
It is moral (a flat-rated tithe is referred to in the Bible's Leviticus) and populist.
Mr. Thompson argued that the tithe was a necessary expense since it was required to hold his church offices.
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If you take the two tithes together, it would create an overall tithe of 7.5% of the adjusted gross income.
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If you take the two tithes together, it would create an overall tithe that was 9.7% of the adjusted gross income.
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However, petitioner overlooks the fact that it is his Church who is requiring him to resign his positions if he does not tithe.
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That argument might have worked if he was a minister, who was required to tithe as a a condition of his paid employment.
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He didn't say if your crops fail, don't give me any tithe or if you have a bumper crop, give me triple tithe.
Which makes sense, but one still sees vendors like Lenovo holding court in restaurants and in suites of regular rooms, trying to wiggle out of the tithe.
Two of his wishes -- tithe one-tenth of his income to the poor and provide an anonymous dowry for poor girls -- are part of Jewish customs.
If you are not a full tithe payer you cannot be admitted to the temple, much less hold offices. (The offices are unpaid, which has some relevance).
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The alien is also given the right to partake of what is called the poor tithe, food resources distributed in the local towns at the city gate.
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And if their patents get curbed or struck down in the Samsung ruling (a coin toss at this point) they will not be able to tithe the other manufacturers into submission.
What is clear, however, is that the taxpayer will be on the hook for at least a quarter of the International Seabed Authority's annual operating budget, our tithe under the UN formula.
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In a recent debate in the House of Lords, he argued for a benchmark, though perhaps not one as high as the biblical tithe, to give the wealthy some idea of what was appropriate.
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This counter-intuitive result may reflect the strong cultural and religious pressure to give, and the fact that the Biblical tithe, against which many people measure their donations, says nothing of pre- or post-tax dollars.
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We reach for our wallets, pay the tithe, and enjoy the tasty fruit, hardly noticing, except in the gossip pages, how many times our own net worth the owners of these walls have put away, thanks to their toll collecting activity.
"The only way to get access to their part of the Net is to pay them a tithe, and to that extent it's a classic monopoly, " says Paul Vixie, head of Internet services for Metromedia Fiber Network, which is building its own network.
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