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TAX-AND-SPEND GAME
If you want political “change” this year, who is supposed to change? You or me? And most of all, what effect will that change have on the taxes we pay and the government programs those taxes are supposed to fund? This Q-and-A Club set of questions introduces the Tax-and-Spend Game that can help you explore how you would be willing to reduce the deficit by choosing to either cut services or raise taxes. What choices will you make?
 How Will the Election Change Our Taxes?
Rules of the Tax-and-Spend Game
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Articles and Book Reviews
The Enslaving Illusion of Love
This excerpt from How Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the Divine by Paul Coutinho, SJ, shows that clinging to the love of another prevents us from finding love within ourselves.
Digging Through the Expectations: Discover Who You Are and What You Want
A review and excerpt from 20 Something Manifesto: Quarter-Lifers Speak Out About Who They Are, What They Want, and How to Get It by Christine Hassler. If you are in the twenty- to thirty- year old range (or know someone who is), be sure to read this.
When is a Secret Toxic and When is it Healthy?
Barry and Joyce Vissell, an extraordinarily talented husband and wife relationship counselors discuss the questions of: Are all secrets unhealthy for relationships? Can there be healthy secrets?
Telling the Truth About Alcohol in the Family
In Hungry Hill: A Memoir Carole O'Malley Gaunt describes the effect that silence has on the whole family. In this excerpt from her book she shows how friends, co-workers and community can possibly save the life of the abuser, and the life of the family as well.
Ace, a Yosemite Horse With Common Sense
If you love animals, you'll love reading these two excerpts from Ask Now the Beasts: Our Kinship with Animals Wild and Domestic by Ruth Rudner: Ace, a Yosemite horse with common sense and My Dog, an encounter with a coyote in Yellowstone. You'll also meet Bruno, the mule with a stubborn streak who took me along the same back country where the author had an encounter with a grizzly.
Recent Blog Entries You May Have Missed
Love is Profound Interest
A couple who teach tantric practices popular in India discuss the difference between eastern and western views of love.
Feb. 14, 2008
Do You Have a Toxic Secret?
Deciding when to share a secret, and when not to, can be confusing for both couples and friends who aren’t sure what telling a secret will mean to the relationship. This Q-and-A Club blog encourages you to explore the secrets you hold that are holding you back from a supportive relationships.
Feb. 11, 2008
Soulmates and Solemates
If you are convinced you must find a "soulmate" to be happy, learn some secrets of those of us who are happily married for many years without feeling they share everything with their partner.
Feb. 6, 2008
Protecting Broken Hearts
This Q-and-A Club blog talks about the natural tendency to protect one's heart after it has been broken. And it asks such questions as: How have you comforted yourself when your heart was broken so that you would not shut it away in fear that your heart would be broken again? --
Jan. 30, 2008
Helping Women and Children Change the World.
After coming back from Egypt and Kenya, I felt a great need to give to organizations that support women and children around the world.
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