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Originally posted by Charlatan
I don't have a problem with Socialist tendancies it just depends on which Socialist tendancies you are refering to. If it is govenment spending on health care (ie universal health care), education and a sizable social safty net, I am all for it. I don't believe the public sector has our interests in mind when it is left up to them to manage them.
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Oddly enough, in Minnesota the cost per pupil is usually lower in a private school than in a public one and the average test scores are higher. It seems that they get much more bang for the buck. And seretogis is right in saying that people who send their children to private school still must pay the taxes levied by their local school district.
As far as Government spending goes- almost 80% of my tax dollars go for the purposes you mentioned. The facts are available for your scrutiny online if you care to look. (When looking at government spending on schools remember you have to look at the state spending also as this is where most of that money comes from. If you add all the state spending up it is far more than defense spending- nearly 75% more.)
If you really think you're free, try adding a deck to your house. Or better yet try NOT paying your taxes. Your freedom has been severely curbed in some areas but since you've never had them you don't even know they're gone. They were lost before you were born. And it's been both Democats and Republicans who have taken them away. Ashcroft at least is sensitve to his critics, others before him have not been.
One last comment on "universal health care". Isn't it odd that the SARS outbreak is worst in countries with socialized health care?