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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (755202)	11/28/2006 7:42:03 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In the 70s there were about 20,000 homeschooled kids. Today - 2 million and growing. There's no sense putting a child in a public school that sucks the learning ability out of a child and subjects him to a virtual prison in high school. Those children are the hope of the future. In fact - Eragon a soon to be released movie is based on a book written by a 16 yr old - at the time -homeschooled kid who would - no doubt - have been discouraged from even attempting to write anything beyond a paragraph had he gone to regular school. In fact, he may never have learned how to punctuate, conjugate. He would have been subjugated to the state. Some children survive, and you are right, they are the ones whose parents are pro-active - as was I, of course.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (755202)	11/28/2006 7:47:52 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

As to your "exception," I don't think so. If a person owns his own business, he can pretty much write off everything, leaving the average taxpayer to subsidize this. For instance, CEO has a company car, which he also has for personal use. The lease is paid for by the company as is the insurance. Going to visit family? Make one quick lunch stop for "business purposes" and write off the whole trip, charge it to the company. This, and a myriad of other legal schemes happen all the time, and don't say they don't. I know they do.