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From: steve@hcrvax.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Ontario government funding for Catholic schools
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 19:58:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 19:58:52 1984
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Actually, this is all rather silly.  On the one hand, I've seen an
excellent summary of facts by Tony Lill.  On the other, we have
emotional cries for Jews having their own cut at tax-based school
funding, and atheists having to pay no school taxes.  Has nobody
bothered to notice that the whole [illegal and immoral] tax system,
as well as welfare and other government-based programs, are not
meant to be SELECTIVE, but, rather, GENERAL?

Why, for example, should a single person have to pay into some fund that
allows a pregnant woman to get PAID (!!!) leave while having a child?
Why should the employed pay for UNEMPLOYNMENT insurance?  Why should
we pay taxes which contribute to ALL SORTS of things we as individuals
may never use (welfare, health subsidies, education subsidies, etc.)?

Why?  Well, maybe because we are a SOCIETY, not individuals.  However, where
does one stop short of SOCIALISM, and not having ANY individual properties,
worries, rights, etc.?  See, this kind of argument could go on forever.
The basic question is: does the historical precedent of the BNA Act hold?
I.e. maybe we should pay an education tax that gets doled out among a
whole mess of schools -- Jewish, Catholic, Anglican, Scientologist,
Hungarian, etc. -- rather than just PUBLIC or SEPARATE.

Full steam ahead!

Steve Pozgaj, (whatever ...)!hcr!steve