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- From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Request - USA statistics on religion and taxes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.173646.19640@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:36:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.193059.19394@urbana.mcd.mot.com> dhammers@pacific.urbana.mcd.mot.com (David Hammerslag) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.063501.13399@cs.ucla.edu>, pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
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- >>What is the annual total of donations to religious organizations
- >>in the USA?
- >>
- >>How much would tax revenues be increased if donations to religious
- >>organizations were no longer tax-deductible?
-
- >Be sure to also ask about donations to non-religious charitable organizations
- >such as United Way; I'm sure you don't mean to single out religious
- >organizations.
-
- The following should be distinguished:
-
- (1) donations to charitable organizations affiliated with
- religious organizations
-
- (2) donations to the religious organizations themselves.
-
- Donations to the United Way are like case (1). I was really talking
- about case (2), to which the establishment clause of the First
- Amendment to the USA Constitution arguably applies.
-
- I *did* mean to "single out" religious organizations, and arguably so
- did the USA's "Founding Fathers".
-
- -- Brad Pierce --
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