A Question for the Piecemakers

Letter to the Editor

Los Angeles Times, January 11, 1998
By John Canalis

Re "Piecemakers Invoke a Higher Power in Fight With City," Dec. 29:

Addressing the question, "Is it right to pay taxes" to civil authorities, Jesus answered: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's," that is, the taxes due him, "and to God what is God's."

Now, which do the Piecemakers honor more, God's word--or their $3-million-a-year [revenues]?