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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Tax Supported" Churches.
Message-ID: <431@persci.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 09:55:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.431
Posted: Wed Oct 16 09:55:28 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 00:52:07 EDT
References: <425@persci.UUCP> <597@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan)
Organization: Summation Inc, Woodinville WA
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Summary: 

Quite to the contrary, Mr. Maroney, it is exactly to the point. The state
has received services from this particular church far above what it would
even have taken in taxes, had they taxed everything.

I know you are an advocate of ever-increasing government spending, Mr.
Maroney, your numerous postings of the past few days make that quite clear.
Your solution to deficit spending is to look for even more things to tax. 
This trend leads us right to that great utopian ideal "from each as he is
able, to each as he needs", with SOMEBODY deciding what the abilities and
needs are (I'll bet YOU'd like that job, wouldn't you, Mr. Maroney!).

Remember, too, that in this case the government, which should have had all
sorts of money (and they *PROMISED* it!!) to help these people, reneged. The
only people who really benefited from FEMA were the bureacrats who drew 
overtime shuffling paper, deciding who had needs and who didn't.


-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill