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To: Amy J who wrote (180574)	1/15/2004 10:29:49 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575941

I agree with this statement in areas of defense spending and some (not all) unskilled K12 teachers that could be replaced by better skilled K12 math teachers from India. DO YOU HONESTLY think we need to go to India to find competent teachers for k12 math??? Does it not occur to you that there are plenty of good math teachers, right here in the USA, if you can simply get rid of the classroom teachers unions, which chronically fights the competency testing of our teachers? Importing k12 math teachers from India has to be one of the most bizarre and ridiculous suggestions I've heard.

To: Amy J who wrote (180574)	1/16/2004 8:36:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575941

Its true for all taxes. Taxes for defense spending forcibly take money from people and give it to the military. Taxes for road building forcibly take money from people and use it for roads. Taxes for welfare forcibly take money from taxpayers and give it to welfare recipients. Now a certain level of government spending is necessary, a greater level might be important enough to justify such forcible confiscation of wealth, but arguing that such forcible confiscation should be reduced isn't a greedy policy. Tim