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So children should pay for playgrounds and schools?
by markstos 7y ago
So children should pay for playgrounds and schools?
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- dexterdog 7y agoIf they have income yes. If they are supported by adults then those are the people paying.
- ineedasername 7y agoBy the time my kid pays for his sandbox he'll be too old to care about it.
- jonhohle 7y agoSchools are a net benefit to a community. According to some studies, it’s an annual 18% return on investment and a lifetime 11x return per dollar spent. There are not many places that one can get that kind of return over many decades. We’re pretty foolish for not investing more.
- malandrew 7y agoOr you can bring in highly educated and highly motivated immigrants at almost $0 cost to your taxpayers. It's just the cost of vetting and processing applications. You also have the benefit of only getting the good eggs with few to none of the bad eggs. It's almost certain that H1Bs and other skill-based visas have a much much higher rate of return.
- mcv 7y agoI'm not opposed to the idea of immigration, but proposing it as a replacement for education is bizarre. If you have a population of uneducated idiots, pretty soon you won't be able to afford those highly educated immigrants anymore.