[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:43:37 -0500
On May 24, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
> Phil Enns:
>
>> It seems to me that the issue is not whether poor people should get
>> benefits
>> not available to others but whether government is the best agency for
>> providing those benefits. In the past in the West and in many
>> parts of
>> the
>> world today, religious institutions have provided these services.
>>
>
> The very, very, very, very,very last thing I want is to have to go
> to a
> religious institution for anything ever. So scrap the idea of
> religious
> institutions servicing the public needs -- even if they're willing
> to do if
> for free out of their love for humanity, even if they're more
> effective or
> efficient at doing it. I don't want charity and I don't want no
> Jesus, no
> Moses, no Buddha, no Mohammed, no Ramalamadingdong poisoning the
> stew of
> community responsibility.
This is a stunning admission, Mike. Thank you for your honesty.
~Brian~
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