We should all pay for public education

This is a response to chris3325 in his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFkCq0Yl0kQ

Everyone should pay to support public education not just those who have children in the schools. You benefit from other peoples children being educated every day. Every time you walk out the door and receive some sort of service, chances are that the other person at least needed to be able to read, write and do some minor amount of math to complete the transaction. You benefit from the other person being educated enough to function. Every time you sign on to the Internet, you benefit from people who obtained higher education. Everyone should pay for that benefit. When people go to the polls and vote, you want your fellow citizens to be literate enough to at least understand the issues because you will be impacted by their vote. There is great benefit to us all from living in an educated society and we should all bear the burden of that cost whether we have children in public school or not.

Yes, there should be government-mandated minimum standard for the education of children. Have you ever known someone who could not read and write? Have you seen them struggle with not knowing what bus to get on and be stranded way across town too embarrassed to even ask how to get home? Have you seen them hurt because they could not read the instructions on their medications? Have you seen them being ripped off time after time because they could not do price comparisons or understand even the most simple contracts and didnt know what they were signing?

Failure to provide basic education is an assault against the young, vulnerable and defenseless. Those who do it are abusers and it should certainly be illegal. As a society, we must provide for the education of the young. And, whether we pay for it through property taxes on property, which we own or property tax which is collected indirectly through rents, is as good a way as any for us all to chip in on the costs. Or, we may opt to pay for it another way. But, the bottom line is that we all need to pay for the overwhelming privileges and benefits of living in an educated society whether we have children or not.

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[SSanf]

shaithis45, good grief. The capitalist system that we are supposedly modeled on is not and never has been a sustainable system. Even if it had been "pure" capitalism, it would have failed because it is based on the presumption of unlimited resources and constant growth. In a word, it does not work because it cannot work.

Now, we need to come up with a realistic system to distribute goods and services to the entire population. And, we need to distribute such work as is really needed differently

[SSanf]

shaithis45, I am not overly concerned about the manner in which education and health care get paid for. We all benefit from living in a healthy and educated society. If other countries can figure out how to provide their citizens with the basics for a wholesome and healthy life, I guess we should be smart enough to be able to figure it out, too. Steadfastly refusing to do so is a disgrace on us as a society.

[fringeelements]

Retarded "positive externalities" bullshit from an old shiteater national-socialist bitch.

[QuiglysMom]

I AGREE with you 100%!!!! I am 51 years old and have no children (Quigly is my pet duck whom I spoil mercilessly), and at my age I'm not likely to have any children. Even so, I STRONGLY support public education, and not only don't mind when they raise taxes to pay for it,but also don't understand why they don't more fully fund it. A strong public education system is the one safeguard we have which assures that no matter what class or parantage you were born to, you can still aspire to anything!

[basspig]

The problem with public education is that it is government-sponsored indoctrination. Left wing ideals are forced into our children under the guise of public education. This is wrong.

Private education is better, because it is apolitical, non-partisan and benefits from the free market system.

Property taxes are IMMORAL and EVIL. There can be no freedom without property ownership and there can be no ownership if property can be taxed and taken away. The op will one day lose her home to taxes.

[shaithis45]

SSanf, I'd almost have to say in order to effect any real progress 66% of a population be it in a state of federal election have to be behind the candidates that they vote for.  Don't know how common we see tha nowadays since the country seems to be split. I think what Germany ended up doing was imposing an additional 7.5% income tax which actually went towards building up the country. Question is if that were to happen here in the states, would U.S. govt. use it wisely or not?

[shaithis45]

SSanf, it may very well be a different 21st century given lack of any beneficial policies over time that could've progressed this country and made it better. Instead what I think is going on are issues which never get solved and it all goes back to Fed/State govts. and there are plenty of bad ones out there that have overspent and haven't managed the finances that they take in. You might have struck one common point though regarding a well informed society.

[shaithis45]

SSanf, if we do approach this from a govt. standpoint, then there is a long way to go towards getting back to any real representation. I've actually brought up an ideal about assisting Mexico and granting it statehood/territory status and going down there and cleaning up etc etc however some people just don't want to hear logical alternatives and just waste money on a wall instead of trying to integrate the continent.  One of many issues out there and the other is the workforce.

[shaithis45]

SSanf, what always seems to be like the most logical choices to bring a society more in turn haven tended not to get executed. My overall concern is that U.S. govt. has squandered their opportunities over the decades in solving problems such as immigration, real reform on healthcare, and actually getting a natl. mass transit system in place. We really need to start focusing more on real domestic issues before going off and fighting ideological wars best left not fought.

[SSanf]

See reply above.

[shaithis45]

the U.S. system is a system that does not offer its citenzry a fair chance to get back into normal society once they've committed crimes or have become felons for some lesser known offenses. There is a lot to say about society that doesn't offer some another chance after they have served their time in prison/jail and then bars them from most job opportunities.  Has happened to good people that I've known that I lived right next door to. Society is fucked up, greedy, and corrupted.