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From: rosen@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 01:05:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  6 01:05:57 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!rosen    Mar  4 18:26:00 1985


If you have to ask what is wrong with applying taxes as credit
against charitable contributions, you are missing the point of
tzedaka.

Tzedaka (often, though incorrectly, translated as charity) is 
more accurately defined as justice.  It should be given from an 
understanding of the importance of, need to, and obligation to 
help other Jews.

It should not be viewed as a trap, to find loopholes out of.