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To: carranza2 who wrote (135231)	8/30/2005 1:44:20 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793568

Taxes are taken by force. If you doubt this, try not paying them once. So, you support forced charity (tax paid relief efforts). I don't. What if I want my charity to go to vacation homes for the wealthy? who are you to say that my pet charity is less worthy than yours? I lived about 1 mile away from the epicenter of the Northridge earthquake, the home I was renting at the time was red-tagged. FEMA was handing out money like hotcakes, it is well known that there was extreme fraud. The fact that FEMA cannot manage the money they are given should be an indication that your tax-paid relief efforts are really a great way for scam artists to line their pockets with your and my money. LA got hammered, I personally lost most of my possessions and I still think that the tax-paid relief efforts are wrong. And i don't think that makes me any less compassionate.