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Tax cuts. The poor and declining quality of education nationally proves that throwing money at it doesn't improve it. The US spends much more on education than most other countries and we're not seeing improvements.
The more the Fed spends on education, the lower the bar gets set.
Since No Child is Left Behind, the bar is lowered to the lowest level so EVERYONE passes.
why cuts taxes reducing revenue when we are already broke? austerity and oil independence is the correct path. education is too expensive we dont need more debt we need cheap VE and trade jobs. good nuf for our grandfathers. stop exporting jobs and and importing illegals willing to do trade jobs.
Read a little history. Every time taxes were reduced, revenues increased.
It's the spending.
The question fails to address the underlying issue: WHY should anyone be compelled to labor for the benefit of another?
Paying a tax that is for a public good - that all use - is one thing.
Paying a tax that is for someone else's good, but not your good, is another thing.
It is an abuse of government power to coerce people into involuntary servitude.
The problem with that logic is no one agrees what is the money spend for the public good really.Someone thinks that servitude is what someone else thinks is the public good.Thus politics and elections are a choice of which better suits your believes.The of course politics after that is defined as the art of compromise.That is why politics of specail interest in both parties corrupt them.
Often with a bad economy, this choice has to be made. So what is more important, and why?
Education is by far the best investment this country can make in its future. If we don't invest in education and improve the quality of our schools we will fall farther behind in terms of global competitiveness and technical innovation.
I just read an article about Brazil recently where it specifically mentioned that its opportunity for future economic growth were being limited by the lack of an educated population. Keep in mind this one of the fastest growing economies in the world in the past decade.
i'll go with the tax cut crowd. people have been getting edjumacated for hundreds of years, frequently without the assist of taxes. seems as though before there were taxes the freemasons were establishing schools for free education. once the public theft has ended the public will figure out the best method to educate the kids. Teachers can invest in 401k's and draw SS as easily as I can.
No school, anywhere, for any reason needs a building that cost $578million bucks.
None.
I am not sure which side this poster is on with the errors in spelling and grammer. It is sarcastic or serious?
Why is that? I never heard of such a thing (choosing between tax cuts and education) in a bad economy. When has it happened?
Me either. Anyway "investing in education" is just a euphemism for "giving gobs of money to to the NEA so they can donate to our campaigns". It has nothing to do with education.
Actaully the spending increases in education haven't been productive because money can not solve its problems. Spending cuts have to be made all aorund and money spent wiser in every area or the whole nation will suffer in coming decades.Educators have been terrible about running the budget of schools and we need much more businesss educated administrtors running the schools. The teachers need to be employees and those that can't make the grade gotten rid of.
Great point. I think most of the replies to this post have been good. The 2 problems with the original question (tax cuts or education) is
1. We assume that tax cuts = less money for education. This is not necessarily true. How do we know where those taxes are going? I don't trust pelosi & Reid with my $$$
2. We assume that the more money we spend on education = a better education. Again, not true! We just have to think outside the box, and spend a little smarter.
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