From: jim@specialix.com (Jim Maurer) Subject: Re: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: A Costly and Dangerous Mistake Organization: Specialix Inc. Lines: 25 arf@genesis.MCS.COM (Jack Schmidling) writes: >In article jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes: >>through private contributions on Federal land". Your hate-mongering >>article is devoid of current and historical fact, intellectual content >>and social value. Down the toilet it goes..... >> >And we all know what an unbiased source the NYT is when it comes to things >concerning Israel. >Neither the Times nor the trained seals who have responded thus far seem to >recognize the statement that these "private funds" were all tax exmpt. In >otherwords, American taxpayers put up at least 30% of the money. And >finalyy, how does "Federal land" mitigate the offensiveness of this alien >monument dedicated to perpetuating pitty and the continual flow of tax money >to a foreign entity? >That "Federal land" and tax money could have been used to commerate >Americans or better yet, to house homeless Americans. The donations are tax deductible like any donations to a non-profit organization. I've donated money to a group restoring streetcars and it was tax deductible. Why don't you contribute to a group helping the homeless if you so concerned?