Heard something on BBC radio the other night which caused me to gently chuckle as I, in temporary sleeplessness, tuned in to NPR/MPR on FM.

Not sure if I got it straight (and sure love that British accent!), but there apparently was something about the European Union's Central Bank trying to lower interest rates by buying out government bonds in large quantities like has happened in Japan, the UK, and the U.S. Fed to lower the interest rates and stimulate the economy, regardless of labor-market structural problems in European countries associated with the EU's Central Bank and/or individual banks in various countries related to the EU.

I guess that they could have simply said that the bank and government were agreeing to merely print more money, with the inflation and devaluation that would accompany that as a consequence.

That was not what struck me as funny.

The Brit newscasters were comparing different values of various types of European currencies by various ones being able to purchase Big Macs.

I did not know that McDonald's had such a global prominence.

Personally, I like QuarterPounders just as much, and occasional Fishburgers.

Seems to me that a more reliable (and respected?) Standard of Monetary Value (pertaining to person value, real estate or land value, and so on) should be:

Exodus 30:13 Each who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.
Exodus 38:24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exodus 38:25 And the silver from those of the congregation who were numbered was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:
Exodus 38:26 a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for every one who was numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.

Leviticus 5:15 If any one commits a breach of faith and sins unwittingly in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring, as his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued by you in shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; it is a guilt offering.

More technical details regarding real estate and inheritance:

Leviticus 25:1 The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
25:2 Say to the people of Israel, "When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.
25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
25:4 but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
25:5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather; it shall be a [sabbath] year of solemn rest for the land.
25:8 And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
25:9 Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
25:10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.
25:11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither plant, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.
25:13 In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
25:20 And if you say, 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?'
25:21 I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.
25:22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating old produce; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.
25:23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
25:24 And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.
25:25 If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of his property, then his relative shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
25:29 If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a whole year after its sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
25:30 If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.
25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.
25:32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
25:33 And if one of the Levites does not exercise his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.
25:34 But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.
25:35 And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.
25:36 Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.
25:37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
25:38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
25:39 And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
25:40 he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a traveler. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee;
25:41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own family, and return to the possession of his fathers.
25:42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
25:43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
25:44 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you."

Leviticus 27:3 then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
27:4 If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
27:5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
27:6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
27:7 And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
27:8 And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him.
27:9 If it is an animal such as men offer as an offering to the LORD, all of such that any man gives to the LORD is holy.
27:10 He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he makes any exchange of beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.
27:11 And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered as an offering to the LORD, then the man shall bring the animal before the priest,
27:12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.
27:13 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
27:14 When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
27:15 And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall be his.
27:16 If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land which is his by inheritance, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it; a sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
27:17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your full valuation;
27:18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from your valuation.
27:19 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall remain his.
27:20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
27:21 but the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field that has been devoted; the priest shall be in possession of it.
27:22 If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of his possession by inheritance,
27:23 then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount of the valuation on that day as a holy thing to the LORD.
27:24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance.
27:25 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.

Taxation in Biblical times was not unheard of, and the discrimination involved as to who had to pay and paid what in contrast to who did not pay nor had to pay, or pay as much, is noteworthy:

Genesis 47:1 So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen."
47:2 And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.
47:3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were."
47:4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to travel in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan; and now, we implore you, let your servants reside in the land of Goshen."
47:5 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
47:6 The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my cattle."
47:7 Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
47:8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my travels are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their traveling."
47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
47:11 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
47:12 And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
47:13 Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.
47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
47:15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us food; why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
47:16 And Joseph answered, "Give your cattle, and I will give you food in exchange for your cattle, if your money is gone."
47:17 So they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the burros: and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their cattle that year.
47:18 And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year, and said to him, "We will not hide from m'lord that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are m'lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of m'lord but our bodies and our lands.
47:19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."
47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's;
47:21 and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.
47:22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh, and lived on the allowance which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
47:23 Then Joseph said to the people, "Hey, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
47:24 And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones."
47:25 And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please m'lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh."
47:26 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.
47:27 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and exceedingly multiplied.

Also:

Second Chronicles 24:6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, on the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?"
24:9 And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.

Esther 2:18 Then the king gave a great banquet to all his princes and servants; it was Esther's banquet. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces, and gave gifts with royal liberality.

Nehemiah 5:4 And there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax upon our fields and our vineyards.

Matthew 9:9 As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and He said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed Him.

Matthew 17:24 When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said, "Does not your teacher pay the tax?"
17:25 He said, "Yes." And when he came home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their sons or from others?"
17:26 And when he said, "From others," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.
17:27 However, to not give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

Matthew 25:27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

Luke 3:12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?"
3:13 And he said to them, "Collect no more than is appointed you."
3:14 Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages."

Doesn't do much for extortionist cops, letting their police union cause them to go on strike for higher salaries.

Luke 19:2 And there was a man named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector, and rich.

As was the case from the time that Israelites wanted the prophet Samuel to give them a human-governmental king, with the complicated situation thereafter of "a wheel within a wheel" (as Ezekiel might have put it in Ezekiel 1:16) existing.... after which existed Roman Government (rife and reeking with mythological religious roman gods) ruling Jewish religious establishment (under the One True and Eternal YHWH LORD and GOD) within which Jesus ministered during His brief three-year earthly lifespan....and now exists the American Government as the Big Cat (with ourselves, The Small Mouse Church, residing thereunder) -- it is hoped that the Overall Quasi-Secular Government will not be unfair against the Minority Religious-Subset Government therein in terms of imposing tax burdens which the Overall Secular Government really does not need, to appropriately and adequately take care of the Minority Religious-Subset Government, and which the latter neither expects nor desires the Overall Quasi-Secular Government to so impose.

Matthew 22:17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
Mark 12:14 And they came and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Mark 12:17 Jesus said to them, "Render [or Give] to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were amazed at Him. Luke 20:25 He said to them, "Then render [or give] to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." ...keeping in mind that God ultimately owns Caesar, and Caesar is eternally indebted to God.

Romans 13:6 For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Romans 13:7 Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Whoever has the military-weaponry superiority determines what the type of money is, what it is valued at involving exports and imports, and do their best to make practically counterfeit-proof denominations of it.

More is required of course.

The will of a trained-for-discipline nation of normally creative and industrious people but where half of them were unemployed, to work on all sorts of jobs (each destined by the Fuehrer, like putting together the pieces of a giant puzzle, to be used for production and conveyance of war materials for international aggression in the name of "peace"), all leading to internal German-citizens prosperity (while jews who had severely suppressed Evangelical Lutheran and Catholic Germans steeped in the rich Christian traditions of Bach and Luther were prejudicially scapegoated) with the do-nothing-to-stop-Adolf wimpishness of England (while America was busy recuperating from their 1929 Stock Market Crash) and even tricky Stalin (concerning his approval given to Hitler to invade Poland) along with Axis support consisting of Mussolini's Italy and the Japanese Emperor's imperialist-intentioned kamikaze fanatics....was vital for economic stabilization relating to the currency of Deutschland during the 30s.

Of course, military-equipment and military-manpower is not the ultimate and final answer as to who establishes what currency based on whatever:

Leviticus 19:13 You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.
13:7 One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
13:11 Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but he who gathers little by little will increase it.
21:31 The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.
22:1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
25:19 Trust in a faithless man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.
28:20 A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.

Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.

Isaiah 30:12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;
30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, the crash of which comes suddenly, in an instant;
30:14 and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
30:15 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." And you would not,
30:16 but you said, "No! We will speed upon horses," therefore you shall speed away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds," therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
30:17 A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
54:15 If any one stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.
54:16 Hey, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;
54:17 No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me," says the LORD.

Micah 7:5 Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of His jealous wrath, all the Earth shall be consumed; for a full, yes, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the Earth.

Luke 12:21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God

Acts 3:6 But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but I give you what I have; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."

Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything [i.e. NO loans nor mortgages], except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

First Timothy 6:9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge humans [both male and female] into ruin and destruction.
First Timothy 6:18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, liberal and generous.

James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
James 5:4 Hey, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

In the theocratic society of the early Hebrews, the Standard of Monetary Currency obviously was religiously determined and based upon religion, specifically: Judaism. What do you think of that, Alan Greenspan? But then, instead of a Chief Prophet as Head of Government, the Israelites wanted a king:

Deuteronomy 17:14 When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me'
Deuteronomy 17:15 you may indeed set as king over you him whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not [unconstitutionally] put a [Kenyan not Hawaiian] foreigner over you [hear that, Obamanites?], who is not your brother.

First Samuel 8:1 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
8:2 The name of his first-born son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.
8:3 Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.
8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,
8:5 and said to him, "Hey, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint for us a king to govern us like all the nations."
8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
8:10 So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him.
8:19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No! but we will have a king over us,
8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, "Give in to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city."
10:19 But you have this day rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, 'No! but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands."
12:1 And Samuel said to all Israel, "Hey, I have responded to your voice in all that you have said to me, and have made a king over you.
12:12 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the LORD your God was your king.
12:13 And now consider the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; hey, the LORD has set a king over you.
12:17 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that He may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king."
12:19 And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king."

That's when things started deteriorating, and going from what they were, to worse:

Before:

Leviticus 19:27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples nor mar [i.e. trim] the edges of your beard.

Leviticus 21:10 The priest who is chief among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the [Indian Chief with ponytail?] hair of his head hang loose, nor rend his clothes;
21:11 he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;
21:12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary [or teepee?], nor profane the sanctuary of his [Great Spirit?] God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a harlot, these he shall not marry; but he shall take to wife a virgin of his own people,
21:15 that he may not profane his children among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him."
21:16 And the LORD said to Moses,
21:17 'Say to Aaron: "None of your descendants throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.
21:18 For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,
21:19 or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,
21:20 or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles;
21:21 no man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD's offerings by fire; being that he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
21:22 He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,
21:23 but he shall not come near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries; for I am the LORD who sanctify them."'

After:

Ezekiel 44:15 "But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall attend on me to offer me the fat and the blood," says the Lord GOD;
44:16 "they shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
44:17 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments; they shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within.
44:18 They shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.
44:19 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the [clerical collar?] garments in which they have been ministering, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, lest they communicate holiness to the people with their garments.
44:20 They shall not shave their heads [as skinheads] nor let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
44:21 No priest shall drink wine, when he enters the inner court.
44:22 They shall not marry a widow, or a divorced woman, but only a virgin of the stock of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
44:23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.
44:28 They shall have no inheritance; I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession."

It seems, in view of the phenomenal polarization that will eventually and ultimately occur on that "sheep-with-goats" Final Judgment Day, and thereafter, that who is taxed and for how much, how much who pays FICA to the IRS for Social Security, rates for Income Tax for whoever, rates for Gasoline Tax for whoever, rates of Sales Tax for whoever, interest accrued to whoever on monetary accounts within banks, who gets promoted on the job and who does not, who gets what Minimum Wage and who gets a different-amount Minimum Wage . . . should be based not upon what anti-Scriptural means one can and does use to accumulate wealth of whatever types, but rather upon what Scriptural means one can and does use to accumulate wealth of whatever types.

Those who get their income by teaching evolution mythology, by being pimps and prostitutes, by teaching or supporting atheism, by getting money by chance gaming and gambling, by getting money advertising cigarettes and cigars and/or condoms, by posing for and producing and distributing porn, by subsidizing pro-abortion shenanigans, by advertising warm-weather attire in a pornographic way in and on media, those engaged in anti-patriarchal feminist activities, those belonging to and patronizing pro-homosexual businesses and groups, and those of cultic anti-Christian religious beliefs in general ...should be taxed more than those who do the opposite.

Discrimination is not a crime. It never was. What is evil and wicked is to ignore, exclude, boycott, blacklist, censor, and disparage those who should not be ignored, excluded, boycotted, blacklisted, censored, and disparaged . . . AND ignore, exclude, boycott, blacklist, censor, and disparage those who should be ignored, excluded, boycotted, blacklisted, censored, and disparaged.

Scripture itself is full of proof of that, and loaded with examples (as, for example, a following few references cited below):

Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.

Second Corinthians 6:17 "Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them," says the Lord, "and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you."

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and continual love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations,
7:10 and requites to their face those who hate Him, by destroying them; He will not be slack with him who hates Him, He will requite him to his face.
32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you?

Job 34:11 For according to the work of a [human] [God] will requite him [or her], and according to his/her ways He will make it befall him [or her].

Psalm 28:4 Requite them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; requite them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
35:12 They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.
41:10 But you, LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them!
54:5 He will requite my enemies with evil; in your faithfulness put an end to them.
62:12 ...and that to you, Lord, belongs continuous love, because you do requite a man/woman according to his/her work.

Proverbs 24:12 If you say, "Hey, we did not know this [that the non-Hawaiian Kenyan birth certificate of Barack Hussein Obama was for real]," does not He who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not He who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will He not requite man/woman according to his [or her] work?

Lamentations 3:64 You will requite them, LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Ezekiel 9:10 As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will requite their deeds upon their heads.
11:21 "But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will requite their deeds upon their own heads," says the Lord GOD.
16:43 "Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things; therefore, hey, I will requite your deeds upon your head," says the Lord GOD. "Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?"

Hosea 4:9 And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways, and requite them for their deeds.

Joel 3:4 "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly and speedily.
Joel 3:7 But now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will requite your deed upon your own head.

Second Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will requite him for his deeds.

Heretics will make a proverbial "mountain out of a molehole" pertaining to a few apparent exception references such as:

Psalm 103:10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities.

Jeremiah 31:34 And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

....mis-concluding and mis-asserting that God forgives everyone regardless of their responses to Him, that He is unconditionally tolerant, and [injustly] indiscriminate.

But those verses clearly referencing reconciliation and forgiveness do NOT apply to everyone. Nor do they even apply to MOST persons. Nor will they EVER apply to most individuals. Such references (as even the entire redemptive and saving gospel of Jesus Christ) ONLY pertain to those tiny few who are [genuinely] penitent and, honestly, then correctively obedient thereafter, as Christ plainly intended for all with a sincere rectification-oriented mindset like the woman caught in and probably truly guilty of adultery for whatever duressed cause (as well as other repentant sinners):

John 5:14 Afterward, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you."
John 8:10 Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
John 8:11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."

First Corinthians 15:34 Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Romans 9:13 As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!
15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16 So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.
17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."
18 So then He has mercy upon whomever He wills, and He hardens the heart of whomever He wills.

And He hardens the heart of whoever He wills because they themselves "draw first blood" and start the whole problem themselves by FIRST hardening their own heart by themselves.

Those who work honorable jobs with their hands deserve benefits and discounts - in stark contrast to others of a lazy or slothful lifestyle:

Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Matthew 20:1 The kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
20:2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place;
20:4 and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went.
20:5 Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.
20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'
20:7 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' [Why did not they look for work before that?] He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'
20:8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'
20:9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.
20:10 Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
20:11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder,
20:12 saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'
20:13 But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
20:14 Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you.
20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?'

Luke 24:11 ...but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.

First Thessalonians 4:9 But regarding love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
10 and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more,
11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;
12 so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody [hear that, Perpetual Welfare Recipients?].

Second Thessalonians 3:7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you.

Malachi 3:18 Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.