Sentences with phrase «such as tax collectors»

His holiness took him to meeting with public sinners or the unpopular such as tax collectors, rather than to shunning them.

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In those days, sinners fell into five basic categories: people who did dirty things for a living (such as pig farmers and tax collectors), people who did immoral things (such as liars and adulterers), people who did not keep the law up to the standards of the religious authorities (such as you and me), Samaritans and gentiles.

Indeed, as the Supreme Court held in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (2011), such an approach «assumes that income should be treated as if it were government property even if it has not come into the tax collector's hands....

Once a student loan is in default, that is when debt collectors will start being more aggressive with collection efforts and threaten to do things such as garnish your wages, intercept your tax refund or possibly even sue you (for private student loans) for not making your student loan payments.

The Americans for the Arts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.»