On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
... 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.
Then I take it you have almost the exact same worries about contributing to churches as you have about "contributing" to government. Reminds me of a short exchange I had with a co-worker a couple of years ago. He had bought a lottery ticket (which I don't do), and it went like this: I: What are your chances of winning? he: What are *yours*? I: Not much different than yours! ______________________________________________________________________ Jon Galt e-mail: jongalt@pinn.net website: http://www.pinn.net/~jongalt/ PGP public key available on my website. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ______________________________________________________________________