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Let your Yes be Yes. A social psychologist at Southampton University (UK) has devised a new test for lying with an accuracy rate of more than 85%. Using his new technique of true and false statements, he found that liars in fact take longer to answer the questions than those telling the truth—between a half-second and one second longer. What's most significant here, I think, is that his truth-telling control group was composed of Christians. [Source: Telegraph (UK), April 15, 2004]
posted by Merle Harton, Jr. 10:33 PM
Now that the April 15 tax day has come and gone, and with a year of taxes still ahead of us, it would be a good thing to consider the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, a national nonprofit organization advocating for US federal legislation that would provide a way for war resisters and others to participate in the US tax system without violating conscientiously held beliefs. If successful, the fund would enable persons to have their income, estate, and gift tax payments spent for nonmilitary purposes only. Existing IRS regulations do not permit this.
The Peace Tax Fund Bill was introduced in Congress in 1972. The House of Representatives held hearings on the proposal in 1992 and again in 1995. The bill is now H.R. 2037, referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means on May 8, 2003.
posted by Merle Harton, Jr. 1:02 AM
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