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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:29:51 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.com{NoSpam}
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I'm against public funding of schools as it implies a right to an
education (which is a free good)
But if you HAVE to have public funding...
James Brown wrote:
> 1:Yes Larry, that's publicly funded as well, but people can explicitly indicate
> on their tax forms which system they are supporting. Theoretically, one system
> or the other could get no tax dollars. Most people however, supporting my
> cynical apathy of life theory, don't fill it out and their tax dollars get
> split between the systems (75 public, 25 seperate? can't recall the numbers
> precisely, but it's something like that).
this is a better way than what we generally do in the US, which is if
you want to send your kids anywhere other than public schools, you pay
double. If you read into that my support for vouchers, you'd be correct.
Personally I wish everyone could choose how ALL of their tax dollars
were spent. I'd split 50-50 between NASA and DOD (flippant remark
alert... really, space travel should be privatized)
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| (...) :) Fair enough. I've never (to my knowledge!) attempted to convert anyone without them having opened the topic, and I've certainly never told someone I know what's best for them. I would consider myself strongly christian, but I also strongly (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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