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okasha

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41. Can you choose where your income taxes go?

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:44 PM

Mar 2013

Do you support George Bush's war (now, unfortunately, Obama's war) in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has killed untold thousands of innocent persons, including children? The near-indifference to rape of women soldiers by fellow members of the US armed services? The inequities of NAFTA? The current policy of closing down the US-Mexican border regardless of its human, economic and environmental costs? If you don't, and progressives generally don't, have you refused to pay the taxes that fund those policies?

Do you boycott the US government entirely, not only refusing to pay taxes, but refusing to vote, campaign for candidates, accept any government benefits you may receive? If not, why not?

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Buddhists too, apparently. trotsky Mar 2013 #4

where? BuddhaGirl Mar 2013 #5

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nope BuddhaGirl Mar 2013 #7

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Apparently not BuddhaGirl Mar 2013 #9

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My experience Dorian Gray Mar 2013 #58

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"Blaming congregants for the hierarchy is misguided." Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2013 #53

Who did that? Dorian Gray Mar 2013 #54

Please consider posting in the new Interfaith group. cbayer Mar 2013 #55

Very disappointing to see intelligence such as yours used to alienate and disparage nt Xipe Totec Mar 2013 #12

That certainly isn't the point Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #15

Unnecessary rudeness BuddhaGirl Mar 2013 #19

You are just repeating the same old stuff BuddhaGirl Mar 2013 #13

Your logic is uncompelling Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #16

... trotsky Mar 2013 #18

and your logic is just as uncompelling kwassa Mar 2013 #21

How much responsibility for pedophilia does the church bear... trotsky Mar 2013 #22

No, that has changed, though not enough kwassa Mar 2013 #25

2 responses: trotsky Mar 2013 #26

respect the relevant local laws in investigating and reporting allegations of sexual abuse kwassa Mar 2013 #27

Sheesh, did you even read what you posted? skepticscott Mar 2013 #28

You still didn't answer my question. trotsky Mar 2013 #30

To answer your question ... kwassa Mar 2013 #35

If that's the way you bow out of the discussion, so be it. trotsky Mar 2013 #38

trotsky, you are such a waste of time. kwassa Mar 2013 #43

All I did was ask a question. trotsky Mar 2013 #47

Logic is subjective. That's new. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #23

You are only logical up to a point. kwassa Mar 2013 #24

Extortion Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #36

Can you choose where your income taxes go? okasha Mar 2013 #41

Paying taxes isn't voluntary. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #42

Paying taxes is voluntary okasha Mar 2013 #45

Shockingly illogical Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #46

So you would be willing okasha Mar 2013 #49

Flogging dead horses, again. Act_of_Reparation Mar 2013 #50

Whaterver you say. okasha Mar 2013 #51

"Twaddle." Plantaganet Mar 2013 #52

Financially supporting an organization is ... kwassa Mar 2013 #44

However, the atheists who mock and belittle believers Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2013 #32

A lecture from you on behavior is laughable. trotsky Mar 2013 #33

I think I am acting in a way that Jesus would approve Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2013 #37

Awesome. trotsky Mar 2013 #39

So do you approve of bigotry? Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2013 #40

No, but apparently Jesus does. n/t trotsky Mar 2013 #48

Now that would seem to be a bigoted remark Fortinbras Armstrong Mar 2013 #59

You have been asked at least 2 dozen times now... trotsky Mar 2013 #61

Like keeping woman subservient edhopper Mar 2013 #2

I, for one, am enthralled. Plantaganet Mar 2013 #29

You need to post this in GD skepticscott Mar 2013 #31

Love and mercy indeed. trotsky Mar 2013 #34