Re: back off, man

["Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com>]

Doug Wilson wrote,
"Mary Jo Hamilton says that my claim to be speaking "cost free" is baloney, 
and points to the tax immunity of churches. Notice the legerdemain. When a 
private entity gets to keep its own money, this is called a subsidy from the 
government. If a mugger in the alley didn't get to the twenty dollars in my 
shoe, is that my birthday present from him? And when privately earned money 
is taken by force to subsidize an education in a worldview I reject, that 
must be a contribution or something. Here is the basic question: is it 
possible for the government to ever be guilty of theft?"

It's not theft, we're merely rendering unto Caesar that which is...well, you 
know how it goes. [please don't respond with other verses, as I'm clean out 
of them now having used that one up.]

"What would you call a school owned by the government?"

I call it a public school, as it's owned by the people.  Same reason I call 
National Forests, National Parks, and BLM land 'public lands.'

Sunil


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