[MD] Value and the Individual

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Christoffer Ivarsson <IvarssonChristoffer at hotmail.com>:

> 
> 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?

School vouchers have nothing to do with how much money a person has. The
value of a voucher is the same for every parent.





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