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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Pithy. Too bad the "equality of opportunity" is something that's only true when you look at it through a specific pair of spectacles.
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It's still the basis, even if the reality doesn't always match. But unlike many places in Europe, I'm not tested and tracked, whether I like it or not, into a pathway for my education.
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Imagine how useful those kids might've been if y'all hadn't had such a hangup about specific types of indoctrination. Of course, i'm saying this tongue in cheek, but there does seem to be something wrong when you all accept that parents raise their kids this way.
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Hmmm. Who determines how parenting is done? And who enforces it? And what happened to liberty...
Was I, as a 12-15 years supposed to lecture to my peer's parent about how badly they were shortchanging their kids? Really? I did try to motivate peer-to-peer and going nothing for my efforts but sneers and the occasional bruise.
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Hard to say, as I can't pull comparative figures out of google, but the first thing that I notice when I look at the dutch national budget is that the total raked in through corporate taxation is about 50% of the amount received through income taxes (and socsec etc.), wheras in the USA corporations account for less than 20% of the "income tax+socset etc" figure.
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Who actually pays corporate income tax? Why the customers, of course. It's a cost of business just like labor, and advertizing. it's not even progressive, except in the sense that luxury products are bought by rich people...