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Free education? That only comes by learning from other people's mistakes. If a classroom and professional teachers are involved it's anything but free. They cos
by vaadu 12y ago
Free education? That only comes by learning from other people's mistakes. If a classroom and professional teachers are involved it's anything but free. They cost big bucks.
- danbruc 12y agoSchool and university are free, i.e. already paid with taxes, in Germany. The same goes for health care, although it is technically not a tax.
- viraptor 12y agoFree, as in everyone paid for it collectively (via taxes) and you don't need to pay directly to the college/university anymore. Not free as in noone pays.
- arethuza 12y agoThe phrase often used in the UK is "free at the point of delivery" - it was one of the founding principles of the NHS: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/nhscoreprinciples.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/nhscoreprinc... Pretty much everyone knows that the NHS is paid by taxpayers (NB I have met people working the UK public sector who had never given a moments thought to where the money they spent actually comes from, but they are pretty rare).
- VLM 12y agoIts a local mythological belief that if you remove universal services which basically everyone requires from our universal tax collection system and insert vast teams of middlemen competing with each other to build a dilbertian confuseopoly, that those highly paid middlemen none the less somehow magically reduce aggregate net total cost to the society. Which would be hilarious as a parody if it wasn't being presented as factual policy.
- arethuza 12y agoI wouldn't hold up the NHS as the best possible health system but it does kind of work given the relatively small amount of money we pay into it - it is telling that the book by the founder of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan, called his book about its creation "In Place of Fear": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
- Avshalom 12y agoThey are paid for by tax, the graphs however are post tax.
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