> > > I abstain from the rest of this thread except to say that the portion of my taxes that goes to the education of America's children is probably the one tax I don't resent paying at all.
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> > I don't resent paying it, I really don't.
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> I didn't think so. I had a feeling my comment could be construed that way, and I almost clarified what I meant -- should have done that -- but I ended up not. I honestly don't have strong or thoroughly formulated opinions about how education should be taxed. I definitely see the merit behind the arguments that someone without kids in the school system should pay less, the same, and more taxes than someone with. My only adamant conviction about this is just that education should be paid for through universal taxes *somehow*.

I agree. I was very, very fortunate that to have grown up where I did; my public school education in a good state for such things rivals a private school education (at least through high school) in at least half the states. I guess my argument was more about the undue reverence I think people give to the idea of having and raising children, and less about who pays for educating those same children. But that's a discussion for another day. I'm tired.

Mou"somehow, we almost always end up at the same place"sie