Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
One of the areas I most disagreed with President Bush, the Elder, was the funding of faith based initiatives. Nothing corrupts people and organizations of good intentions like the lure of government funding: see public funded education.

I believe in and support many charitable institutions because I choose to, based on my beliefs and means. I do not want the money that I am compelled to pay under penalty of imprisonment to be used to impose regulation and complexity on people who are trying to help others.

Ask any federal employee about the semi-annual Combined Federal Campaign conducted in the work place. In some offices I've worked in, it has been a "shake down" worthy of something out of an organized crime story.