[Avodah] Taxes

[Rich, Joel]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:29:08 -0400
Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> DDD applies to the law as practiced, not as codified. And while there

Source?  I've seen this claim, but I know of no authoritative source for
it.

> -Micha

Yitzhak
--
IIUC it flows from a philosophical issue of what din means. For example
if one takes the approach that DMD flows from the divine right of kings
to rule as they see fit (the torah seems to assume this exists), what
exactly is their rule - what is on the books or what they choose to
enforce. If there were a poll tax that the king never collected, would
you have to pay at the poll even though there was no one to collect it?
Look at the flip side, what if a king were known to take $100 per head
from each resident of a flood plain without ever codifying the rule,
would you say he was a gazlan for taking the money and the town people
could not pay it when the officers showed up?

KT
Joel Rich
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