04-06-2004, 04:04 AM
Fneh.
I've said it once, I'll say it again:
Free public education in all areas of learning, to whatever level we can reasonably provide (bachelor's degree, perhaps?).
The benefits would outweigh the costs. Incomes would equalize without ugly redistribution or humiliating and burdensome welfare systems. Students could (gasp) study, travel, accumulate useful and mind-expanding experience. They could enter the working world with a clean credit rating, which could only enable opportunity. Nobody would feel cheated out of the possibility of improving their lot in life.
What's the cost? Taxes. So, of course, the idea is doomed.
Jester
I've said it once, I'll say it again:
Free public education in all areas of learning, to whatever level we can reasonably provide (bachelor's degree, perhaps?).
The benefits would outweigh the costs. Incomes would equalize without ugly redistribution or humiliating and burdensome welfare systems. Students could (gasp) study, travel, accumulate useful and mind-expanding experience. They could enter the working world with a clean credit rating, which could only enable opportunity. Nobody would feel cheated out of the possibility of improving their lot in life.
What's the cost? Taxes. So, of course, the idea is doomed.
Jester