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plan to cut the welfare budget.

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Wouldn't it be better to deny the B&0 in this

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constitution this right of subsidy, or tax break, and

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increase the welfare budget?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: That may well be. The

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point is here we can't take the exemption away from the

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B&0 in the absence of its doing something which by law

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removes the exemption.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mentzer.

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DELEGATE MENTZER: Delegate Gallagher, did

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your Committee consider whether this provision could

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have been in the constitution in the schedule, and although

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the schedule is primarily for the temporary items of

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transition it can also be used as an appendix to carry

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over those things which do not belong or seem incongruent

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with the main body of the constitution?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: We felt again that

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because of the importance of the subject matter and the

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fact that it had been handled on a constitutional basis

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in the past that we ought not to jeopardize our ability to

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remove this exemption by putting it in any secondary status,