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To: brian1501 who wrote (212044)	11/18/2004 11:52:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1578510

If this is true there are some really brave people putting themselves at risk in North Korea - "Roger L Simon - A North Korean Freedom Movement? Hopeful signs have apparently surfaced. It's Thursday in Japan and I have received email from Kyoto from Mongai Kome, frequent commenter on this blog. His morning paper (Sankei Shinbun) is reporting anti-regime flyers being posted in over fifty places in North Korea. This public display of disobedience in that benighted country is unprecedented and has been going on for the last month. Here is Mongai: The most prevalent flyer is called the "sixteen lies" of tyrant Kim and his tyrant father and it takes apart the fundamental myths and propaganda regarding the cult of the Kims and outlines the failings of the regime. Another flyer is based on the thesis that Kim Jong-il killed his father (perhaps some propaganda in and of itself but a brilliant move given the traditions of the Korean culture.) Here is hoping things happen in twos and in Iran and North Korea justice will be done, and done soon, and done of, by, and for the people there with a little help from friends..." Message 20778212

To: brian1501 who wrote (212044)	11/19/2004 6:45:58 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578510

re: Let's make it simple. You pay X as a taxpayer to support public schools. A homeschool family pays X to do the same. They also pay Y to buy materials to homeschool their kid. That leaves a slot in the school system. If you give the parents a tax break of Y, you end up with a slot in the school system worth more than that Y value in the first place, and both of you still pay the X base cost. Let's make it simpler. You don't have a kid in the system, you get a tax break. I don't have a kid in the system, I get a tax break. John