? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
but say that the state should get entirely out of things like education and charity (welfare and healthcare) because it is none of the state's business - the churches (and other voluntary organizations) are responsible for these functions.
I would have to dissagry with you. If the state has any business, it is to provide services that the comminaty as a whole needs or services where the market will not provide. While churches (and other voluntary organizations) have there place I do not beleave that it is a universal solition.
Indeed I have worries about contribution money to an orginisation that I have little ablity to control via my influence as a voter.
Your influence as a voter? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!1!!! When you contribute voluntarily, you can choose to contribute elsewhere if you think your contributions are misused (like I use my charitable deduction to the max, but I don't give to the united way and urge others not to :-). You don't have a choice about paying taxes to pay for the horrible public schools / socialized medicine and your influence as a voter ain't worth shit. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps