My fair share
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Not really. Since I started paying taxes, (1965) approximately 9 trillion tax dollars have gone into various social assistance (welfare) programs.
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=253565
I object to about half of the cost of those programs. (ie: some programs I am fine with. Others I am not.)
The Iraq War has cost about 600 billion so far.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/10/news/economy/costofwar.fortune/index.htm
The taxes spent each year on social assistance programs I believe to be harmful and wasteful not only exceed the 100 billion per year Iraq has been costing us, but will continue LONG after Iraq is nothing more than an unpleasant memory.
Hell, food stamps alone cost $30 billion per year. And there are significantly more assistance programs going on than food stamps.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cga/FactSheets/Food_Stamps.htm
To be fair, the programs I object to specifically are cash payments (except a reasonable period of unemployment benefits, which are paid by unemployment insurance, not tax dollars.), food stamps (cash equivalent) and housing assistance programs. I have explained in other threads why I object to them. The cost of those programs top expenditures on the Iraq War by almost 50%
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/Test030701b.cfm
(look at the dark blue section of chart 2.)
Annie
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Point well taken. My public school spends over $12k per student in grammar schools, nearly $16k this year in high school. Tuition in nearby religious, private gifted range from $4k-$10k. The private high schools go up to $14k, so the public schools would still take a few thou per kid.
Then again, the state/fed have decided that the schools are the place to fund student aged disabled and test them via no child left behind. Seriously, the system is screwed.
cawacko
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Dude, you have got to be kidding? There is no uniform requirement for all the schools that accept vouchers across the country just as there aren't for government schools.
cawacko
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first of all not all voucher users go to private school. People can use them to go to public school as well. How do poor kids get to public school? I applaud your effort to try to find some side bogeyman however.
Annie
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I don't know how that's decided. I teach in parochial school and the kids qualify for bus service. If they live over a mile and don't utilize, the parents get a portion back. It seems here that the cost of bus transportation for schools is built into our taxes, not into the school budgets.
Annie
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Trust me, many private schools already have plenty of underachievers, poor, rich and middle class.
cawacko
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That state is going to decide what bus routes are in your city? Yeah, I'd love to see the state of California try and tell San Francisco where to put its bus routes. You would see the biggest F-You ever.
There is no correlation with bus routes and school choice. Start a thread on bus routes if you are that into the nitty gritty on how they work.
You know desh, the really sick and twisted thing is that WE aren't paying for Bush's war. The chinese and others are.
And it's our grandkids who are going to pay for it.
That's fiscal responsibility, John McCain style.
uscitizen
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Well I should have put a slash (/) between local state I suppose. But local state seemed clear enough to me. but then CA is a non local state to me and KY is a local state if you want to be picky.
de
yes, and i want my extorted tax dollars to produce something other than the misery and pain that bushco with the aid of congress has unleashed on this nation
