From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 10:26:09 MDT
Olga Bourlin [mailto:fauxever@sprynet.com] wrote:
Maybe a child of one of those breeders will one day find a
cure for -
cancer? aging? senility? - so you may yet benefit. In all
likelihood you're
already benefiting. If you think about the innovations and
inventions of
which you are the beneficiary - all produced by other
people's children - it
may help you to appreciate how we're all in this together.
### What if the child grows up to be a new Stalin? No, the
appeal to possible future benefits, for which I would have to pay anyway
with my health insurance and tax dollars on R&D, is not convincing. And all
of taxpayers already paid for the inventions produced by other people's
children, with tax money and commercial investments. It is under most
circumstances unjust to tax me for public schooling - after all, the
breeders have tangible benefits, like the pleasure of seeing their children
grow, a better support network in old age - why should I be forced to
relieve them of some of the associated costs?
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At least children are real. What gets me is the tax break
given to
religious institutions - good money going to fantastical
supercreatures and
good real estate going to the storytellers perpetuating the
"invisible
friend(s)" myths.
### No contest here. Tax breaks for the entrepreneurs
selling religious goods and services are infuriating. But they do not in any
way justify similar breaks given to breeders.
Rafal
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