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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Long Distance
Message-ID: <1763@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 17:20:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 12 17:20:06 1986
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In article <966@terak.UUCP> suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) writes:
>Regardless of how much I may CHOOSE to give to
>charities that I SELECT, being FORCED to financially support a
>charity that I DID NOT select is repugnant to me.

I assume, then, that Ms. Barnett and others who share her feelings
are even more repulsed by the concept of TAXATION by the government.
After all, those taxes go towards things like welfare, social security,
and other payments to the poor which are essentially charity.  And
they are far from voluntary.

While we're at it, you probably are opposed to paying higher prices
at your neighborhood store to compensate for shoplifting, or to your
doctor to compensate for malpractice insurance.  But it happens.
For any service you buy (electricity or gas, for example) you pay
extra because of the deadbeats who won't pay their bills.  Many of
them aren't even poor.

	Mark