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Subject: Re: Make the rich pay? - no, the middle class, as usual.
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 10:46:53 EST
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>>>  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 ? 
                                                   
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