Matthias Julius wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Doesn't that make you feel cheap, though? I mean, I can understand if >>you are unemployed or if you have fallen on hard times financially. >>However, I don't particularly like the fact that I and my neighbors >>(very few of whom have school age children, must are grown up) are >>*forced* by the government to subsidize education for *everyone else's* >>children. > > > You can understand from the point of view of somebody in need for > support to get his children educated. But, where should the money > come from? I think a community should provide its members with the > basic necessities to have a human-like live and to have chance to > improve it. This requires education, housing, social and physical > security. > How about food and clothing? Should the community "provide" those? How about transportation? Where do you draw the line. As far as I am concerned, the government should make sure that we have a military to defend us and go after the bad guys before they come after us and to build roads (which, IMO, can't be effectively done as a private endeavour). If the local community wants to more, more power to them. My beef is with the federal and state-level involement in education.
> Those members who can afford it will have to pay for it. It falls > back on the community if these members who can not support themselfes > are left out. I currently live in the US and I pay taxes here. And I > am OK with it although my kids will probably never go to school here > and I certainly could use the money for something else. > If people are concerned about their ability to pay for education individually, they can form co-ops. Basically, you are subsidizing other people's kids going to school. Even if it doesn't bother you, it bothers me. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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