>Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't even discuss tax. I once told a woman that I didn't mind
>> paying tax because there was "a woman down the road who is
>> a single parent of two teenage boys" who might need help.
>
>Nothing stops you from giving her private charity, or from
>organising many like you to help many like her. Probably
>either would be more effective than government help.
She doesn't want your stinking charity, She wants the *right* to an income.
>Granted also, there's a role for law in helping her, holding the
>father to account, protecting the woman from loonies who want
>to "stone the slut", et cetera.
Or loonies who think she should have to rely on their charity.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas