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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6016)	11/14/2000 1:33:55 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Many churches do not act as non-for-profit entities in their dealings. My brother is a nurse in a hospital owned by an order of nuns that also owns a local brewery. This seems odd to me. Why should these transactions be tax-exempt? You are allowing a kind of public spending that benefits churches (by allowing a net reduction to tax revenues). Since the government chooses which churches qualify this does seem to be dangerously close to the "establishment". Accordingly, this is closer to being a prohibited activity than your inordinate concern over contributions from charities receiving some money from the general fund, which is not prohibited, for the purposes of providing sex education. If you are concerned about the pittance that was spent at Tuffs University, then this is something that amounts to real money leaking from the Government and seems to be on questionable Constitutional grounds.