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From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 23:11:57 EDT
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In article <717@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes:
>> In article <673@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes:
>> >
>> >I thought religions were already being helped financially - don't
>> >they get tax breaks?
>> 
>> This is really irrelevant to the issue at hand since public schools
>> don't pay taxes either.  Private schools have to charge tuition.
>> Parents paying this tuition must also pay taxes to support the public
>> schools.  (This is the argument for tuition tax credits.)
>> 
>> Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd
>
>I hate to disappoint you but it is relevant. I was responding to the remark:
>
>>> OK.  Then we'll make church attendance cumpulsory, just as a
>>> state certified education is now.  You'll have to help support
>>> the church with your tax money too, just so we're all on an
>>> equal footing.  Is it a deal?
>>> -- 
>>> 
>>> Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd
>
>The implication here is that churches don't get help financially from the
>tax-payer. If they don't have to pay taxes, then they are being helped.
>
>Padraig Houlahan

Are they being helped more than the public schools who don't have to pay
taxes either (though they recieve help from tax money)?
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Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd