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  • #16
    Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
    My question is how one determines whether he is buying votes or doing what he considers a kindness. What is the distinction?
    I already told you that PM, but looking at how they spend their own money. Do they give their own money to causes or only public money to causes?
    "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
    GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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    • #17
      Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
      I already told you that PM, but looking at how they spend their own money. Do they give their own money to causes or only public money to causes?
      I already told you, if it's done through tax then they are paying that tax too, so it would be both.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
        I already told you, if it's done through tax then they are paying that tax too, so it would be both.


        By that insane logic, nobody can ever buy votes, ever.
        "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
        GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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        • #19
          Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post


          By that insane logic, nobody can ever buy votes, ever.
          There just needs to be a better determining factor than "are they using public funds". For example, if the politician is taking a new stance on a policy at a convenient time.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
            Can you quote this? I would like to see the context.
            My neice was at one a few weeks ago where they were talking about this very subject. She was one of the caterers.

            So?
            So, it is not "doing a kindness", it is forcing all Virginians to pay for it. Were it a kindness, then he would have done something personally, not in his official capacity.
            That's what
            - She

            Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
            - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

            I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
            - Stephen R. Donaldson

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post
              There just needs to be a better determining factor than "are they using public funds". For example, if the politician is taking a new stance on a policy at a convenient time.
              Funny how I pretty much said that one. What year is it PM?
              "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
              GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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