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To: Road Walker who wrote (211940)	11/17/2004 4:16:45 PM
From: brian1501	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578094

Wouldn't that be the Republican ideal? Why support educational welfare? Let the free market function and it'll be cheaper and better, right? And then the users can pay for it. It's sort of like taxing the rich at a higher rate to help take care of the poor. Isn't THAT in the "states interest"? While that would appeal to my libertarian side, you'd end up with a bunch of idiots because their parents didn't care about them enough to pay for their education out of discretionary funds. The dollars per student are deceptive. That's taking into account the cost of the buildings, heating, cooling, maintaining the buildings, teachers salaries, on and on... All these are fixed costs. The incremental cost of one more student is next to nothing, since you would still have all the other costs. Not so fast. I agree with most of that, but if 30 kids went to homeschooling, that's one less teacher you'd need (or more appropriately more room for other kids or a smaller class). Those incremental kids could add up to make the difference between needing a bigger building or not as well. Like I said before...you're stuck with the buildings and the maintenance as soon as you agree that the state should provide education. You say the incremental cost of a student is small, fine, the cost of a tax break for the books and materials of a home schooler is small too...AND would be smaller than the incremental cost of that kid, leaving more room in the system for another kid. Encouraging homeschooling with a small tax break like that would pay off more than it costs (or better yet, vouchers). I can't believe you want to raise my taxes to pay for home schoolers, when I don't have kids and I already pay for your kids (or someone like you) to go to school. And you haven't even said thanks. I don't think it would raise your taxes, but while we're thanking people you owe me for all the crap art projects I have to pay for where they show folks urinating on Jesus etc. Brian

To: Road Walker who wrote (211940)	11/17/2004 7:33:08 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1578094

Are you advocating getting rid of the public school system? Wouldn't that be the Republican ideal? Why support educational welfare? Let the free market function and it'll be cheaper and better, right? That would be the libertarian ideal not the Republican ideal. There is overlap between the to groups (and I am in the overlap) but they are for the most part two different groups. I can't believe you want to raise my taxes to pay for home schoolers I don't see how that would be the case. If people take their kids out of the school system they decrease the cost of the system. One question is how many would take their children out of the system if they didn't have to pay for it either way. Tim