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From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 08:25:03 EDT
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Keywords: Taxes
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In article <10395@ucbvax.ARPA> arnold@ucbvax.UUCP (Kenneth C R C Arnold) writes:
>In article <5878@cbscc.UUCP> pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) writes:
>>...
>>This is really irrelevant to the issue at hand since public schools
>>don't pay taxes either.  Private schools have to charge tuition.
>>Parents paying this tuition must also pay taxes to support the public
>>schools.  (This is the argument for tuition tax credits.)
>
>And I suppose we should give rebates to people who don't have children
>at all, since they are taxed for a service they don't receive?  If not,
>why not?
>
>Of course, I have a reason myself why I think why not.  I think that
>society at large gets real, substantial benefits from a generally
>educated citizenry.  Public school taxes make this benefit possible,
>and thus are payed for the same reason you pay other taxes -- because
>society at large, and thus you, (allegedly) benefit from the service,
>and it could not be efficiently or properly provided any other way.
>The fact that someone might have children they choose to educate some
>other way is just as irrelevant to this as someone who has no
>children.

No, I don't think it is just as irrelevant.  Parents who have children
ought to have a choice as to how they are educated.  They are compelled
to get them educated somewhere.  Why should the tax system be set up
so as to make it so difficult to choose against the public schools?
People who don't have children obviously do not have to deal with the
problem of wheter or not they are getting a proper education in the
public schools.

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Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd