How Do I Liberate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by Radar
Why should someone without children be forced to pay for the education of those who CHOSE to have children?

Because it improves the general, overall quality of society that you also play a part in. Businesses and people pay into the local taxes, the local schools educate the children with that money, then down the line the children grow up with that education and enter the workforce. The money comes back. If you feel that your children need an education better than what the state can provide, then send them off to a private school. Do not, however, remove the system that enables children from low-income families to receive an education that will provide them with the means to get a job and enter the workforce as a productive adult and return the money you invested back into the system. Despite what you perceive, the money that is taken out of your paycheck comes back in the form of business and employment to yourself as well as others.

Why do you think college tuition is different for in-state students when compared with the inflated rates for out-of-state ones? Because the in-state students are more likely to stay in the area in which they attended college after they graduate, get a job, and begin returning money to the local community. The money taken out of your paycheck ensures that children in your local area have a chance to become edcuated, productive adults that will get jobs, earn money, and return what was given to them many times fold.

If the system of "buy your own education with your own money" were already in place and had been for decades, I could see this working. Implementing such a policy now would result in disaster for communities across the entire country.