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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/01/2014 02:49 PM, Art Kelly
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<font face="Arial">The only answer to this problem, which by nature
will get progressively worse, is to abolish *all* tax deductions.
(I.e. flat tax.) It was the threat of withholding tax exempt
status with which IRS targeted conservative groups. There is no
such threat if there are no deductions.<br>
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On similar lines, can we get government out of the marriage
business? Government marriage was a 20th century invention
(before then all marriages were common law), and its sordid
initial purpose was to outlaw mixed race marriages.</font>
(Similar to how government schools were created to indoctrinate
Catholic children.) While there are some legitimate purposes to a
government marriage license, e.g. disease screening, today
government clearly has no idea what a marriage is - so why get a
license? If I were getting married today, I would *not* get a
government license.<br>
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