Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Giving or Taking

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

My point is, nobody is forced to give anything in cohousing, so it's not
relevant to a situation where people are forced to give, like your
road-plowing example. And if people are feeling coerced, they need to make a
group decision one way or the other. It seems clear to me that Becky's group
needs to address this. Sympathizing with their plight doesn't solve any
problems.

As an aside, I'm thinking that we should come up with a list of common
move-in and transition issues that every group faces, so that they could
program discussions ahead of time, and avoid resentments. Is anyone
interested in this?

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento California

http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing/
tamgoddess [at] home.com
> From: Molly Williams <mmw [at] waveinter.com>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 12:03:04 -0400
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_Giving or Taking
> 
> Liz,
> 
> I don't see how my arguments are specious. As I understood the
> original question, it was about whether other people feel one way
> when they give by choice and another way when they feel forced to
> give. My examples were all relevant to this question. It was not a
> question of child care or school taxes, as the original poster made
> clear.
> 
> ~ Molly Wms.
> 
> 
> Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:
>> 
>>> We are non-parents, most of whose property taxes goes to pay for the
>>> local public school system. While I believe that having an educated
>>> populace is a benefit to the whole society, parents or not, it still
>>> irks me to have to pay ever-increasing taxes for other people's kids
>>> to go to school.
>> 
>>> ~ Molly Wms. (Maine)
>> 
>> So who paid taxes for *you* to go to school?
>> 
>> Everyone benefits from taxation, because none of us would voluntarily donate
>> that much money to the goverment, precisely because we don't agree with how
>> they spend it.
>> 
>> The beauty of cohousing is that everyone *does* have to agree how the money
>> is spent. While I understand your sympathy, applying examples from
>> representational government here is specious.
>> 
>> --
>> Liz Stevenson
>> Southside Park Cohousing
>> Sacramento California
>> 
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