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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
The same choice? and with what funding? School vouchers won't work. If we eliminate public schools in favor of private ones, we'll quickly see private schools for well-to-do kids and private schools for poorer kids. We'll be right back where we are now.
Education is a proper role for government; as much as police and fire services.
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Exactly. The real complaint behind the push for vouchers and private schools comes down to this. The more affluent just don't want to pay not only enough in taxes to support quality schools for their children, they resent being taxed the additional amount necessary to fund schools of the same quality for children of the less affluent who otherwise would not have access to such schools.
American's are inherently a individualistic selfish “what's in it for me?” bunch.
One of the big reason libraries are under such financial stress and budgets are tight is that taxes are at the lowest levels that they have been in 30 years. Yet people still compain at being over taxed.