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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: epicure who wrote (3316)	10/21/2000 1:40:10 AM
From: fuzzymath	Read Replies (1) of 10042

A couple of points. You've obviously thought a lot about the issues. On education: vouchers are primarily about public schools competing and diversifying to improve themselves. Parents would have the right to select whichever school they wanted their children to go to, including all public schools, if their child was in a bad situation, under the Bush plan. Having children myself, I find it appalling that we don't already have this choice for our children. We pay the taxes, we should be able to choose what's best for our children. The federal vouchers will not pay for a private school education. All that will happen in the vast majority of cases is that the public schools that really care about providing high quality education will find children flocking to them -- and the vouchers will help them afford to find a way to expand their facilities to meet the growing demand for their services. Environment is difficult -- I agree with you, but it also hurts my children if I have to spend outrageous prices for energy and have less money to spend on things I want to give to them. On social security, the current system only works if the population of young people is much bigger than the population of old people. That's not the case now. Our young people cannot be expected to pay 15 or 20% social security taxes 20 years from now to give the Baby Boomers (like me) their due. The system has to be changed. Gore does not propose any change whatsoever. He just pushes the problem into the future, raising social security taxes by using funds from general income tax receipts as time goes on. Please comment on these points! I find your commentary very thoughtful, but I believe the Bush view provides the better solutions overall. Kevin/fuzzymath

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