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- From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Bush eats it!
- In-Reply-To: <92317.212257KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:40:00 GMT
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- >DATE: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:22:57 EST
- >FROM: Kurt Ludwick <KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- >
- >In article <BxKLGu.Hqn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (REAL
- >LIFE?!?! HA!!) says:
- >
-
- [...]
-
- >>>>Tax the churches.
- >
-
- Damn straight.
-
- >>Surely you're not suggesting that churches are integral to the operation of
- >>the U.S. government or the well-being of the people. If I remember correctly,
- >
- >That's exactly what I'm saying.
-
- Then some of us disagree. There cannot be two opinions about this.
-
- >
- >>a document was published about this roughly 200 years ago called the "Bill of
- >>Rights." At least, I've heard rumors to that effect. In it, there is a
- >>guarantee, I've been told, that the government will not deny the people the
- >>right to worship whomever they choose, and another guarantee not to force
- >>people to worship anybody or anything.
- >
- >Absolutely right. Irrelevant to the topic, but correct.
-
- Huh? I thought it WAS the topic.
-
- >
- >>May I just add here that the Church deserves to be taxed as much as any other
- >>business? It is one of the most successfully self-contained businesses the
- >>world has ever known. You see, first the Church gives out its only manu-
- >>factured good at no charge to you, as much as you care to take. The
- >
- >Churches are not businesses, by any sane definition. Your tirade against
- >religion is just opinion, and most people know better. Mark my words, any
- >candidate who announces an intention to tax churches will lose, big time.
- >
- >>manufactured good? It goes under the trade name "Guilt (TM)". Then, the
- >>Church, after knowingly giving you the moral equivalent of toxic waste, serves
- >>as a giant waste-disposal service, pretending to put the Guilt (TM) someplace
- >>safe where it won't hurt anybody.
-
- Nah. Way too heavy. Religion is a branch of the entertainment business.
- Sing-a-long. Dramatic monologue. Production studios (Vatican, Mecca,
- Jerusalem, etc.). Overpayed, undertalented stars (Robert Tilton, the Pope,
- Pat Robertson). Fund raisers. Performance tours (Billy Graham, Sun Myung
- Moon, Mahareesh Mahesh Yogi). Magic acts. Tragedy. Musicals. Period
- plays. Horror. Really versatile. Not much humor, though.
-
- >
- >Yeah, whatever. Again, most people know better.
- >
-
- As the _Psychic Digest_ says, "It wouldn't be true if so many people
- believed it!"
-
- >>>>Now America has a fighting chance.
-
- No special tax should fall on religions, other than those universally
- taxed items such as power consumption, use of the
- public roads, sales taxes, property taxes, and other tax burdens that
- do not target them in any specific and limiting way. To allow
- religious groups to buy up all the taxable land with their taxfree
- incomes forces communities dependent on propery taxes (for schools
- or whatever) to raise taxes on the remaining taxable units.
-
-
-
-
- --
- jim tims
- "And if you're a miner, when you're too tired and old and sick and stupid
- to do your job properly, you have to go, whereas just the opposite applies
- with the judges." Beyond the Fringe
-
-