Paul Johnson wrote: > You directly benefit (even without kids) by being surrounded by (relatively) > educated people. Just like freeways: While bicycles may be allowed on most > of them, odds are bicyclists are paying for miles of urban freeway that is > closed to bicycles. Is it fair that people who get around by bicycle on > roads that, in many states they have a constitutional right to ride on, have > to pay for freeways that you have to earn the priveledge of a driver's > license to use? Yes, because odds are they indirectly benefit by the freeway > being there by the availability of goods that would otherwise be stuck at the > rail depot, seaport, or entirely different city without urban freeways.
No, they're not the same, Paul. First off I can see and point out potholes in the roads and get them fixed. I do not consider what the public schools in this nation as educating. While I may benefit from an educated public I do not see such an educated public. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do... -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
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