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randr

(12,493 posts)

5. We need a tax revolt

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Dec 9, 2021, 08:26 AM

Dec 2021

It has always pissed me off that religious parties have made it so that the "government" can not fund abortions due to their private objections. I feel the same way about war, religious schools, and a whole host of hand outs to polluting industries.
It is time we raise our voices loud and clear that we will not fund anything we find against our beliefs.

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The Supreme Court Is Ready to Make Taxpayers Fund Religious Schools [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP

Canada DownriverDem Dec 2021 #1

Geez, it sounds like the right might... Omnipresent Dec 2021 #2

I am skeptical that will necessarily translate to votes. In 2016 it was very clear that the Supreme JohnSJ Dec 2021 #3

Trump's appointees are pissing people off in middle. Omnipresent Dec 2021 #6

I wish you were right, but the current polls don't indicate it, especially for the House JohnSJ Dec 2021 #12

Election day is 11 months away Omnipresent Dec 2021 #14

You're absolutely right. The vast majority of voters don't pay any Colgate 64 Dec 2021 #11

Also a huge challenge for us in the House is the redistricting that is favoring republicans JohnSJ Dec 2021 #13

Funds for public education are already depleted by the mandate of funding no_hypocrisy Dec 2021 #4

"Defund the Schools" moose65 Dec 2021 #8

We need a tax revolt randr Dec 2021 #5

How will this work if Islamic and Jewish schools start popping up with Ilsa Dec 2021 #7

There was a girl from Liberty University on Jeopardy a couple years ago. In the first round there brewens Dec 2021 #9

Conservative justices scoff at Maine's exclusion of religious schools from tuition-assistance mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 #10