> Mousie said essentially the same thing in a different way: "I pay higher taxes ... yet I get none of the public education benefits whatsoever." Essentially, the argument goes, in public schools /everyone/ pays for education, while in private schools, only the parents of children using the system would have to pay. Isn't it more fair if only the people using the system have to pay for it?
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> The response to this argument is essentially the same as the response I gave to Mousie in my post "Re: Taxes" but I'll say it again to get the point across. You are arguing that people should only pay for services that they use -- and that people should /have/ to pay for the services that they /do/ use. To expand the concept, this means that you should only have to pay for public parks if you use them, so there should be a fee for public parks. You should only have to pay for police if you need them, so only victims of a crime or people at risk should have to pay for police. You should only have to pay for roads when you drive on them, so roads should all be toll roads. Saying /any/ of these things is the same, in principal, as saying that you should only have to pay for a schooling system if you have children who need an education.
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Please, please stop saying I don't want to pay my taxes and that I don't want to pay for public school. Everyone keeps ignoring the word "higher" in my post. I pay *higher* taxes than families. I'm allowed to be bothered by that. I never said I didn't want to pay at all or that I didn't want to pay toward public schools. I just don't want to have to pay *more* than anyone else, especially those who directly utilize the system.