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FYI this actually happened: http://venturebeat.com/2010/03/03/life-investment/ http://venturebeat.com/2010/03/03/life-investment/

• jrockway 15y ago
  See also: taxes. The government subsidizes school (in some form) from kindergarten to your PhD, and in return, you pay them back in the form of taxes as soon as you use that knowledge to make money.
  • gyardley 15y ago
    Very odd example, no? While pooled revenue from taxes does pay for collective benefits, any single individual's taxes are only tenuously related to the benefits they receive. If it worked like you described, I'd expect a break from the IRS since my education mostly took place elsewhere, and I'd still be writing checks to the Canadian government for the education and healthcare I got as a child. (That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but it's not how it works.)
    • nekojima 15y ago
      You'd be writing cheques to the Canadian govt. Checks are something on clothing or you put in boxes. :-D
      • gyardley 15y ago
        Cut me a little slack, I've been down here for a decade now. :)
    • mnutt 15y ago
      Just like amount invested in a company is tenuously related to the returns you'll make. From the government's perspective, they make a blanket investment in everybody in the form of providing education and services. Some people end up paying huge amounts back in taxes, others pay nothing back.
  • anamax 15y ago
    I'm pretty sure my parents, not some abstraction, were paying for those things.