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To: koan who wrote (24379)	8/21/2012 8:46:07 PM
From: Little Joe	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

"they have to pay their own way the way all people and businesses do?" Does that include the millions of Americans who pay no taxes. lj

To: koan who wrote (24379)	8/21/2012 9:58:29 PM
From: Brumar89	5 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

Greenpeace uses roads and bridges, etc. So does PETA, Friends of the Earth, the Pew Foundation, ACORN, Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, and all the liberal non-profits. Shouldn't they all have to pay if churches do?

To: koan who wrote (24379)	8/21/2012 11:19:28 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

The people who go to church use the roads. Most of them pay taxes of one form or another. In any case streets aren't funding the church, they are a publicly provided good, and possibly (at least for secondary roads, which the church is likely to be one, not necessarily for limited access roads, or small local courts) an economically public good as well. I am fine with any religion, but shouldn't they have to pay their own way the way all people and businesses do? 1 - Would you apply that to other non-profits as well? 2 - Buying the roads isn't paying their own way. Building the roads (or really deciding where to build them, and then paying contractors to build them) is something the government decides to do. It may have benefit as part of a general public good, to the church as well, but its the government's way not the church's