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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
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Subject: Re: YOU EARNED IT??? - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 22:36:52 EST
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uiucdcs!renner    Apr  3 18:19:00 1984

   /**** uiucdcs:net.politics / mit-eddi!lkk / 10:24 pm  Apr  2, 1984 ****/
>  All of you people who are so upset that you have to pay taxes on what
>  you have earned to support others are being both shortsighted and
>  ignorant.  The real reason for paying for college educations is not
>  because its "a nice thing to to".  Rather, it is a socially necessary
>  requirement of our society to have a large force of well trained
>  workers.  If people are unable or unwilling to go to school, our entire
>  country will suffer.  The same is true for all social programs.
>  Welfare, for instance, stimulates the economy by allowing people to
>  consume more.  If all those people on welfare were starving to death
>  instead, demand in the economy would be lower and we would be in an even
>  worse recession.

Welfare does not "stimulate the economy."  Welfare simply transfers consumer
goods to those who produce nothing.  The demand for consumer goods does
increase, but there is no particular economic virtue in this.  Any resources
used are then not available for productive uses; the net result is a drain on
the economy.

Most authors in the student support discussion are not opposed to paying
taxes to support education.  They are irritated that some students think they
are *entitled* to their free education.  There is a difference.

Scott Renner
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