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- From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
- Subject: Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:14:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.231438.1384@prime.mdata.fi>
- References: <adams.725553012@spssig> <1992Dec28.181720.27176@prime.mdata.fi> <TORKEL.92Dec28215350@lludd.sics.se>
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- In article <TORKEL.92Dec28215350@lludd.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.181720.27176@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi' (Iikka Paavolainen) writes:
- >
- > >From the post I got the impression that 'donations' to the church are
- > >completely voluntary in the US. Is this true? Here in Finland, when you join
- > >the church (as most people do when they are born), you have a set tax you
- > >have to pay to the church of 2% of income. This comes into play only after
- > >you are 18, of course.
- >
- > But surely in Finland as in other Nordic countries you are free to leave
- >the Church at any time and thus escape the tax?
-
- Yes (only after you are 15, though, unless your parents remove you). But most
- people won't bother, and because most people belong to the church since they
- were born, most people kindly pay the taxes.
-
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