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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (3968)	1/30/2001 11:41:17 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Jorj, you didn't answer my questions! Making the procedure illegal was not part of our discussion at all. What "denying" meant was "denying funding it for women who qualify for medical assistance from the government." And I asked you many questions, and you didn't address them: ...the proposal to deny this particular procedure to the poor who qualify for other medical procedures because this one offends the religious convictions of some taxpayers isn't based on a principle otherwise followed. Ever. At all. In any case. Do pacifists get to stipulate that their taxes won't go for warmaking? Do animal rights activists get to stipulate that theirs won't go for medical research involving animals? Do ethical vegetarians get to stipulate no subsidies to the cattle industry? Do Zionist American Jews get to stipulate that their taxes won't go to the Palestinian Authority, or American Arabs get an Israel deduction on April 15? Do Christian and other fundamentalists who believe divorce is immoral get to decline to subsidize the administration of that process? And as for atheists, we'd like very much not to pay higher taxes on our profits to compensate for those not collected on the profits of the God-businesses! So if the churches will give up their tax-exempt status and I can decline to subsidize wars to which I take moral exception, I'll be willing to work out a special deal for the religious who want to pick and choose what they get taxed on. Jorj, how about cake sales to fund wars? That way pacifists wouldn't be offended.