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I'm not conflating anything. We subsidize the education of everyone because it is important to society and to the children to ensure that all children are educa
by vidarh 2y ago
I'm not conflating anything. We subsidize the education of everyone because it is important to society and to the children to ensure that all children are educated. Because society then mandates it because an educated workforce is essential to the functioning of society that you too depend on, it is natural that society also shares the burden of paying for it.
That you want to opt out of participating in meeting a critical need in society is indeed a moral issue. You should be free to opt out. But then society should be equally free to deny you access to use all resources funded by society, like public roads, and anything else tax funded. Letting you pick and choose would be equally morally fraught as denying you an out.
But you have an out: You can move somewhere with different policies.
- sneak 2y agoIt is important to society that cars be insured and that buildings be built to safety standards, also. We don’t subsidize those things, we make the people driving the cars and building the buildings pay for it. Everyone in society benefits from those requirements. Your arguments here as to why the childfree must pay for the education of children they did not produce doesn’t really hold water. I benefit from the hotel I’m in being built to fire code, yet it doesn’t make sense to build private hotels with tax money. Why does it make sense for children to be educated with tax money? Children need food, too, and we don’t buy their food with tax money. Why education?