flipper wrote:

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:41:28 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


flipper wrote:

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:21:00 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


flipper wrote:

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:53:14 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Jim Thompson wrote:

In these budget tight times, part of the government budget balancing
includes removing allowable deductions. I plan on pushing to get rid
of write-offs for contributions to churches. Ought to be easy right
now ;-)


Don't bet on it. Churches do a lot to help people in need with food,
to keep the lights on or even a bed in a homeless shelter. They do it
with mostly or all volunteers, and at a lot lower cost than any
government agency. Any land owned by churches is a small fraction of a
percent in any city. Deadbeat landowners owe a lot more in taxes than
all the value of the land & property taxes on churches would ever add up
to. The annual notice for delinquent property taxes around here was
over 75 pages of the smallest font the local newspaper has. It was over
half of the newspaper that day.

Use your head to analyze the facts, instead of making an ass of
yourself.

You make excellent points but the appeal to using one's head is likely
to fall on deaf ears because it isn't about logic, facts, law,
justice, freedom, or anything of the sort. Atheists despise religion,
just as socialists despise free enterprise, and are out to destroy it
by any means, regardless of the means. And that, as they say, is that.


It's really sad what cheap booze does to people.

Ya think?

Well, the way government works these days we can subsidize 'quality
booze' and then run a "cash for rotgut" program.


That's how they get the rotgut in the first place.

Well, that would certainly explain a lot.

And a perfect companion to my having watched "Weird Warfare" on the
History Channel earlier as some of those 'inventors' must surely have
been drinking, smoking, snorting or injecting something.


In some cases: 'A mind is a terrible thing!' ;-)


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid™ on it, because it's
Teflon coated.