Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!arnold From: arnold@ucbvax.ARPA (Kenneth C R C Arnold) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools. Message-ID: <10395@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 01:47:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10395 Posted: Mon Sep 16 01:47:30 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 06:20:35 EDT References: <1072@ulysses.UUCP> <607@hou2g.UUCP> <5847@cbscc.UUCP> <673@utastro.UUCP> <5878@cbscc.UUCP> Reply-To: arnold@ucbvax.UUCP (Kenneth C R C Arnold) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 28 Keywords: Taxes Xref: watmath net.politics:11023 net.religion:7658 In article <5878@cbscc.UUCP> pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) writes: >In article <673@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes: >> >>I thought religions were already being helped financially - don't >>they get tax breaks? > >This is really irrelevant to the issue at hand since public schools >don't pay taxes either. Private schools have to charge tuition. >Parents paying this tuition must also pay taxes to support the public >schools. (This is the argument for tuition tax credits.) And I suppose we should give rebates to people who don't have children at all, since they are taxed for a service they don't receive? If not, why not? Of course, I have a reason myself why I think why not. I think that society at large gets real, substantial benefits from a generally educated citizenry. Public school taxes make this benefit possible, and thus are payed for the same reason you pay other taxes -- because society at large, and thus you, (allegedly) benefit from the service, and it could not be efficiently or properly provided any other way. The fact that someone might have children they choose to educate some other way is just as irrelevant to this as someone who has no children. If this isn't your reasoning, what is? Why not give rebates to the childless? Ken Arnold Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com