[MD] Value and the Individual

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Platt

>> What you are doing is confusing this tax as only a "tuition" for
>> "your child". Then saying those attending private schools are paying
>> twice. That's just wrong. The "tax" is a public tax levied on ALL
>> citizens to sustain an educated populace. Whether or not YOU take
>> advantage of the public schools with your child is your choice. So
>> you have one payment that is everyone's contribution to sustaining an
>> educated populace, and another that is your optional choice to send
>> your child to a "private" school and pay tuition there.
>
> No problem if taxes were in fact sustaining and educated populace. 
> Unfortunately,
> the government school system in the U.S. -- along with the government in 
> Washington
> -- is broken. That's why we need vouchers. Then schools will compete in a 
> free
> market. Bad schools will go out of business and parents can choose between 
> good
> schools for their children to attend. Further, paying twice for schools 
> will be
> eliminated.

Let me just ask something; you are not at all concerned about the social 
differentiations, the huge chasms that will be between different classes of 
people when the education anyone can receive is subject to how much money 
that person or his/her happens to have?

Chris