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(11,804 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)mucifer
(23,559 posts)Or so says our supreme court. Unless you have your own 600 billion dollars then they might give you another 600 billion dollars for no reason.
redwitch
(14,946 posts)Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)redwitch
(14,946 posts)Seems like that would be a thing His Noodly Appendage would be against. Unless there was marinara.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)for when humor comforts.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Marinara.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Yours truly,
John Q and Jane Public
onecaliberal
(32,887 posts)ProgressiveJarhead
(172 posts)But the older translations read more like " thou shalt not commit murder." Tax dollars for murder? Fine. Tax dollars to make life better? Not good. Jeff Sessions thinks that taking care of the people who do the dirty work is an entitlement. The DoD should be renamed to the Department of Offense and Corporate Resource Protection.
calimary
(81,440 posts)Okay, fine, Mr. & Mrs. America! Game ON! Funding the military-industrial complex so we can go out and kill masses of people in other countries for the sake of the oil barons - is against my religion! I want an exemption! Seriously!
How 'bout not just fighting fire with fire - let's hijack THEIR fire and fight with THAT!
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)K&R
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)But I rec the sentiment.
calimary
(81,440 posts)Especially if we can get some publicity. Occupy started a new conversation - that has been widely and publicly credited with having an impact and moving the whole idea of income inequality farther to the front. Why not this, too?
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)gblady
(3,541 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)the budget, are we entitled to a 50% tax rebate because it violates our deeply held religious beliefs?
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)The Supreme 'fools' have opened a door
lark
(23,147 posts)I do not believe in war, it's against my religious beliefs.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)There are no cars in the parking lots!
No one milling around Ground Zero, either....!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)You're just a sad, little non-billionaire human. Your rights ain't shit.
mopinko
(70,197 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,405 posts)Thanks for the thread, trumad.
Kablooie
(18,638 posts)That's the dividing line.
Corporate owners religious beliefs can be forced on others but not if you are just a citizen.
That's the law.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)argument.
I do not clearly remember how the IRS ruled. I seem to remember some honking big fines and penalties being threatened if people followed peaceniks advocacy
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Starve it!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Paying for the Pentagon, wars, etc., does violate my deepest spiritual beliefs.
Nail. Hammer. Head.
Thank you, Trumad.