[Vision2020] Churches and Taxes

[keely emerinemix]

I'm not sure what the Olympics have to do with my response to you, nor am I 
clear on the connection between your smugness and your head cold.  In fact, 
Doug, I think that those two points not only frame your post below, but 
adequately explain why engaging with you on this or anything has proved 
fruitless at best.  And yes, I mean "fruitless" in the "no particular 
result" sense, as well as in the Galatians 5 meaning.

And, because it's so easy to use the word "fruit" when discussing you, I 
will say that your statistics are not only somewhat less than compelling, 
but are, I think, the fruit of a poisoned tree.  You hate public education 
and I work hard to support it.  I'm pretty sure that's not the only or even 
the most fascinating difference between us, but I think it's enough for now.

keely




From: heirdoug at netscape.net
To: kjajmix1 at msn.com, thansen at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Churches and Taxes
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:13:41 -0500

keely,

I'm glad to see that your response time has gotten shorter. It must be the 
winter olympics.

I suppose that would depend upon how you define 'benefits' and 'educated'. 
The last I heard only 50 % of those who graduate from High School actually 
go on to Higher education and of those 30 % have to take remedial math and 
remedial language classes over in order to enter into college. I used to 
teach the high school graduates that couldn't add, subtract, multiply and 
divide properly. If I had given them the above data in the form of a word 
problem, many of them would have added the 50 to the 30 and come up with - 
80% can pass the basic math problems with ease.....

Oh, by the way, I'm not smug I just have a head cold.... Thanks for your 
concern!

lemeno, Doug!

-----Original Message-----
From: keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
To: heirdoug at netscape.net; thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:24:37 -0800
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Churches and Taxes


I suppose the argument that all of society benefits when its children are 
educated would be lost on the ineffably smug Mr. Farris . . .

keely

From: heirdoug at netscape.net
To: thansen at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Churches and Taxes
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:47:27 -0500

Tom-Tom,

Using your infallible logic, if parents of school aged children educate them 
via some
other form than Keely's infallible school system then they should be free 
from paying
52% property taxes to the school district for services they do not use!

I'll Pray for fewer teachers teaching larger classes with less 
administrative overhead!

Again keep up the good work! Doug

Tom-Tom so eloquently stated:
New Rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire
department when they catch fire. Sorry, Reverend, that's one of those
services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay
for; you can pray for rain.
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