Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.politics Subject: School taxes -- defining the problem Message-ID: <3129@alice.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 11:55:41 EST Article-I.D.: alice.3129 Posted: Sat Dec 1 11:55:41 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 04:40:38 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 There are really three separate issues to be considered when thinking about education: 1. Should the government be in the school business? 2. Should everyone be required to go to school? 3. Should people be forced to pay for others' education? Question 1 is completely independent of 2 and 3. An answer of "yes" to question 2 implies an answer of "yes" to question 3, because some people would otherwise not be able to pay for their compulsory education. On the other hand, if your answer to question 2 is "no", then you might answer "yes" or "no" to 3. I think any discussion of these issues will be better conceived if it takes this separation into account. Further discussion in net.politics, please.