In a hearing on US funding for AIDS programs, particularly the ABC aspects of those programs, Representative Henry Hyde says (pdf) “groups ‘best suited to promote A and B programs, such as faith-based and indigenous organizations, are often not the ones implementing these programs. Instead, organizations long-associated with the social marketing of condoms are given …

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Somehow it seems less painful to have the IRS directly debit the checking account than it does to physically write a check to “US Treasury.” Update: A different perspective: the author thinks it’s too easy to do our taxes (or have a paid preparer do them for us).