On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:12 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > > We used to do that before World War Two and the GI Bill. Very few > people went to college. If you were willing to sacrifice any pretense > of a knowledge economy and to target a low wage-no tax strategy you > could curtail all higher education government subsidy. > > If I were a politician I wouldn't want to break the news to my middle > class voters that their kids don't have a prayer of going to college > and > will work low wage, low skill jobs. > > Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > what I dont understand about the voucher system is, why are we > > taxing just to give back credits? why tax at all? -jmz ---- well with a daughter who just graduated with an architectural degree with no job prospects and her boyfriend having just graduated with a business degree having no job prospects for the most part, the educational system itself doesn't presently offer any prospects for much of anything now anyway. In fact, America is not the same country it used to be.
As for JMZ's comments, I suppose that one of the intentions of the taxation system is a redistribution of wealth in various forms which is not necessarily a bad idea. An educated populace is a good thing. An educated populace buried in educational debt is of little use. I think the idea though is it would be better to have people going to school than having the schools close, layoff personnel because enrollments are surely declining as fewer can pay the costs of education which have skyrocketed and the current prospects for employment on many degrees are few. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
