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School taxes as a form of property taxes for everyone is not fair. Why should I pay for something that I'm not using? I don't have any kids.
I believe that all schools should be privately run and if you want your kids to be educated, you should have to pay for it youself. It shouldn't be the government's job to provide education to the masses.
Education - early education especially - creates positive externalities. We all benefit from living in a society where almost everyone is literate and a majority of people are numerate. If all such investment is private we will collectively invest an insufficient amount.
No. Every child deserves an equal education - it benefits us as a country more than almost anything else. School financing should be reconstituted to remove tax biases.
And BTW, you ARE using those schools. The children that come out of those schools - when they become working adults support and affect everything in society that you will come into contact with over the rest of your life. It is in your best interest that they become as competent and as well educated as possible. If they don't, I hope you are content to have Beavis do your heart surgery while Butthead manages anesthesiology.
Education - early education especially - creates positive externalities. We all benefit from living in a society where almost everyone is literate and a majority of people are numerate. If all such investment is private we will collectively invest an insufficient amount.
School taxes as a form of property taxes for everyone is not fair. Why should I pay for something that I'm not using? I don't have any kids.
I believe that all schools should be privately run and if you want your kids to be educated, you should have to pay for it youself. It shouldn't be the government's job to provide education to the masses.
Somebody who didn't have kids paid for your education! Karma!
Education - early education especially - creates positive externalities. We all benefit from living in a society where almost everyone is literate and a majority of people are numerate. If all such investment is private we will collectively invest an insufficient amount.
We as a society spend an awful lot of money trying to educate semi-retarded thugs in the inner city neighborhoods.
The are incapable of becoming educated, so what's the point? Let them watch TV all day for all I care. They never will be able to read anyway.
If you can't afford schooling for your kid, he shouldn't get it. That isn't my problem.
School taxes as a form of property taxes for everyone is not fair. Why should I pay for something that I'm not using? I don't have any kids.
I believe that all schools should be privately run and if you want your kids to be educated, you should have to pay for it youself. It shouldn't be the government's job to provide education to the masses.
I disagree.
Free public education was fundamental to building our nation in the first place. It made us one of the earliest nations to achieve virtually full literacy, which is critically important to a republic. The baseline educational level for all citizens should be guaranteed regardless of financial ability or background of the citizens whom we must place our trust in to carry on running the nation when we are no longer able. Tearing down our educational tradition is a first step in evolving and promoting a caste system.
Privatizing schools, prisons and parks is just a betrayal of our founding principles.
[quote=Old Sol;49092808]We as a society spend an awful lot of money trying to educate semi-retarded thugs in the inner city neighborhoods.
The are incapable of becoming educated, so what's the point? Let them watch TV all day for all I care. They never will be able to read anyway.
If you can't afford schooling for your kid, he shouldn't get it. That isn't my problem.[/QUOTE]
But it is your problem. It's all our problem. Do you want uneducated kids who can't find jobs and just go on welfare.
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