Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!ubc-vision!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!brewster From: brewster@watdcsu.UUCP Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Make the rich pay? - no, the middle class, as usual. Message-ID: <2875@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 10:46:53 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.2875 Posted: Thu Dec 18 10:46:53 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 01:36:44 EST References: <2819@watdcsu.UUCP> <708@looking.UUCP> <3764@utcsri.UUCP> <2564@hcrvx2.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 58 >>> In the same vein, I have never understood the calls for universal >>> free daycare. >> I'm not sure I'm asking for that. I pay for my children's daycare, >> and don't want a handout. But you must realize that it costs about >> the same as a university education -- not just the tuition fees, the >> whole thing. I can afford it because I'm better of than most people. >I am against universal daycare. Why in the world should I have to pay for >Mr and Mrs Yuppie's daycare costs when they're making more than me??????? >Subsidized daycare for low income families? - fine. For low income >single parents? - even more fine! But families with two BMWs >sitting in the garage of their harbour front condo? Give me a break. > J.B. Robinson Here's another problem I see. How do you think the family could afford two BMW's and a harbourfront condo ? Three ways; way one : their last name is Eaton or Black or Reichman(sp?) or etc, way two : these people have started a business of some sort, accepted the risk inherent in the endeavor, and have been successful, way three : they bought lottery tickets. Nepotism will always be around and there will always be people stupid enough to waste money on lottery tickets and governments greedy enough to sell and aggressively market them, but consider case two. These are the kind of people who can be pushed only so far before they say screw Canada. If you want job creation then someone has to do the creating, and unless you propose that everyone eventually work for the government this means that private enterprise will have to do the creating. Recent figures show that job creation is occurring most rapidly in the small, family owned, start-up type of business. If the firm is successful (i.e. they create jobs), then they will also make money and at some point they will probably go out and buy nice cars and homes. If at this point everyone else, the people who chose to accept the career offer with large corporation X with starting salary Y dollars per year and Z weeks holidays and company benefits and etc., decide they are jealous of someone elses success and tries to tax the hell out of them, or tell them that they are not allowed to share at least equally in government programs, which they have paid for the majority of, why would the entrepeneurs stay in Canada ? To the original point, I don't think the Yuppies should have access to "free" government financed daycare, so I agree with the poster. What I disagree about is the appropriateness of the government getting involved in daycare of any kind. What reason do you have to suspect that government would be any better at handling this social problem with some new program then they are at handling any other social problem ? Why do people always call on the government to throw money at problems without looking at or attempting to treat the root cause ? Try not to become a man UUCP : {decvax|ihnp4}!watmath!watdcsu!brewster of success but rather try Else : Dave Brewer, (519) 886-6657 try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein