KANSAS CITY CATHOLIC HIERARCHY HAS REMAINING CONCERNS ON QUESTION 1 DESPITE STEM CELL RESEARCH PLEDGE!!!
Check the latest statement from the Diocese . . .
KANSAS CITY CATHOLIC LEADERS CONTINUE THEIR OPPOSITION AGAINST QUESTION 1 DESPITE A PLEDGE AGAINST STEM CELL RESEARCH!!!
Check it:
Statement Of The Diocese of Kansas City ~ St. Joseph
Question 1 – Remaining Concerns
(Kansas City, MO / October 29, 2013) Through articles by Mike Hendricks and Mary Sanchez in the Kansas City Star, the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph has learned that leaders of institutions to be funded by the proposed $800,000,000 sales tax on Jackson County citizens have committed not to spend any of the proceeds on embryo-destructive research.
While the Catholic community should be most grateful for this pledge, we still have very serious objections to Question 1 on the November 5 ballot in Jackson County.
Question 1 is still a regressive sales tax on the poor and working middle class of Jackson County. The per capita cost of Question 1 on every man, woman and child in Jackson County is $1,181. The economic development benefit of Question 1 might result in 237 jobs in Jackson County according to proponents. Question 1 asks the citizens of Jackson County to spend nearly $3.4 million for every potential job created.
Question 1 still asks the citizens of one single county in one single state to provide $800,000,000 for the national goal of medical research while providing nothing for desperate local needs.
Question 1 uses a regressive local sales tax on the poor and middle class to pay for a goal which is almost always funded by the federal government through a progressive income tax affecting the wealthy more than the poor.
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Take our money and give it to rich people. Same game, different name.
ReplyDeleteI don't often agree with the Catholic Church, but this issue is about a local regressive tax that funds private corporations engaged in national research. Nowhere else in the entire world does a local government use a local tax for this purpose, and that includes Kansas. That 1/8 cent sales tax was used to construct buildings at the campuses, not for conducting research.
ReplyDeleteHOW DO WE FIND OUT WHO'S IDEA IT WAS TO PUT THIS ON THE BALLOT? Because they are assholes. Hospital and medical profit margins are large enough, now they want research to be publicly funded? Get the f- out of here! It's like asking Kansas Citians to fund Sprint's cell phone towers. >:|
ReplyDeleteMike sanders can be thanked for putting this on the ballot at great taxpayer expense. But he could care less about taxpayers. Just look at the property assessments
ReplyDeleteWe need studies showing that men are more likely than women to show up to work drunk.
ReplyDeleteFuck a whole bunch of Catholics. They're worthless anyway..
ReplyDeletehttp://ncronline.org/blogs/small-c-catholic/open-letter-pope-francis-about-bishop-robert-finn
ReplyDeleteAn open letter to Pope Francis about Bishop Robert Finn
Dear Holy Father:
I write as a brother in Christ to say -- in words echoing what John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon, once told Nixon in the midst of the Watergate scandal -- that there's a cancer growing on your remarkably hopeful papacy.
Radically unlike Nixon's mess, this one is not of your making, but only you can fix it.
You must remove Robert W. Finn as bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., diocese. His continued presence there mocks the good-faith efforts the church is making to respond to the crisis of priests sexually abusing children.
As you're aware, Finn was convicted in court of failure to report to government authorities a priest suspected of child sex abuse. It was classified as a misdemeanor, but that label belittles the magnitude of Finn's failure.
And since Kansas City is the center of the universe, the Pope will get right on that.
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