And then explain to me how it could possibly be considered fair that a rich couple sending their kid to private school gets their public school taxes back, but a childless couple does not.
The childless couple enjoys the benefit of having an educated society. They are employefd by and or employ people ecucated in that system. they sell to and buy from people educated in that system.
Public educatio is a basic and explicit part of the social conttract in the US along with only a handful of other explicit responsiblities.
You don't. I don't get food stamps, a welfare check, my kids don't go to public schools (I don't have any), but I pay taxes that go into these programs. My real estate tax goes straight to the school district. I don't use that service.
The majority of my taxes go towards causes, programs, or institutions whose services I neither need nor want, and a handful to which I have serious ethical and/or moral objections. But there's no recourse. If I say all of this and want my taxes lowered or changed so I can keep more of my own money, I'm called greedy. When somebody else wants my money for some purpose, they're just needy.
This is of course, absurd. The writer, if they are Ameircan, like 95% of Americans, went to public school him or herself. There is also no jusristiction where real estate taxes go only to the schools, indeed the average is less than 25%.
Public Schools are a basic social contract. However screwed up they are, everyone "uses" them including and in some ways, especially people without kids. This is like saying you don't have a car and resent taxes for roadways. How does that milk get to your supermarket?
I will bet the writer consumes public services I don;t yet I pay for. We alread can assume they went to school on the taxpayer's dime.|
exactly. all early adapters already know the few programs you need to do copy any film from blockbuser. several programs being mass marketed off the shelf to do one-click-to-two-disk movie dvd copying. The philps "near" dvd9 will mean one click one disk copying for every dvd made and (expected to be made for the next year) pretty easy.
That is a massive market.
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And then explain to me how it could possibly be considered fair that a rich couple sending their kid to private school gets their public school taxes back, but a childless couple does not. The childless couple enjoys the benefit of having an educated society. They are employefd by and or employ people ecucated in that system. they sell to and buy from people educated in that system. Public educatio is a basic and explicit part of the social conttract in the US along with only a handful of other explicit responsiblities.
This is of course, absurd. The writer, if they are Ameircan, like 95% of Americans, went to public school him or herself. There is also no jusristiction where real estate taxes go only to the schools, indeed the average is less than 25%. Public Schools are a basic social contract. However screwed up they are, everyone "uses" them including and in some ways, especially people without kids. This is like saying you don't have a car and resent taxes for roadways. How does that milk get to your supermarket? I will bet the writer consumes public services I don;t yet I pay for. We alread can assume they went to school on the taxpayer's dime.|
exactly. all early adapters already know the few programs you need to do copy any film from blockbuser. several programs being mass marketed off the shelf to do one-click-to-two-disk movie dvd copying. The philps "near" dvd9 will mean one click one disk copying for every dvd made and (expected to be made for the next year) pretty easy. That is a massive market.