Hey, Let’s Use TAX Dollars To Fund The Ground Zero Mosque!
I’m sure progressives will have no problem with this at all and the next time someone wants to use taxpayer funds to build an Evangelical church in Greenwich Village they’ll think it’s a swell idea…
(Reuters) – The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.
The Democratic comptroller’s spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.
“If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we’d certainly consider it,” Sieber told Reuters.
I wonder what New York’s elected officials think about this idea…
Spokesmen for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and the Islamic center and were not immediately available.
Well that’s a surprise.
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Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol says the plans for a mosque near Ground Zero are going nowhere and he seems 