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To: Ilaine who wrote (36301)	4/30/1999 12:17:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) of 108807

Oh, please, Blue! Anyone who pays $200,000 in taxes in a year can afford to live in a gated community. Certainly churches and charities have appealed publicly to the government because they don't feel they can totally support the underclass. Donations to food banks, for example, simply don't fill all the grocery bags for the people waiting in line. Or perhaps churches are another kind of mercenary endeavor, and all of them are simply lying to the rest of us. Do you think so? And surely you must know that a very small percentage of tax money goes to any kind of support for the poor. Now if you do not feel like paying for military defense, you could argue that you are being screwed, because that is where you are more likely to find your tax dollars . . . I guess a problem I have with libertarianism is that it is an essentially amoral way of looking at life. I don't feel good when babies and small children whose fate is utterly out of their control are starving. I think we can do better than that, and that in fact compassion and fairness are the very basis of a civilized society.

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