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

To: TimF who wrote (4019)	1/30/2001 1:43:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

My response was if you think it is wrong for government to spend money on something then oppose government spending in that area. Somewhere along the line the idea of tax rebates came up but I would not support tax rebates for ethical objectors. It's just not practical to implement some tax loophole for ethical objectors issue by issue. The tax code is squirrelly enough already. The simplest thing to do is for the government to do only the most basic and generally accepted things and for the private sector to do the rest on a voluntary basis. Karen

To: TimF who wrote (4019)	1/30/2001 2:49:58 PM
From: E	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

As I understood it, Jorj's position was that because anti-abortionists feel as they do, HE, Jorj, feels that they shouldn't have to pay for the particular medical procedure, abortion, with their taxes. Jorj is free to change his position to "Everyone may fight to have his ethical objection to supporting a particular government expenditure put into law." He can say, "I myself feel abortion should be treated like other medical procedures for the poor, but of course I approve of any ethical interest group's fighting for tax rebates (or other mechanisms such as denial of government funding) in respect to that group's interest. It should be noted that though most Americans support the right to abortion and to birth control, the Bush administration has issued an executive order, ie fiat, cutting foreign aid to clinics for other services, including birth control and after-care for botched abortions, where the organization offers abortion counseling. Famine works, though. Takes a little longer, but it's cheap.