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From: tac@teldata.UUCP (Tom Condon)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: YOU EARNED IT??? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 18:07:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 18:07:32 1984
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   /**** 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.

Not only does welfare not stimulate the economy as several respondents to
this have commented, but it also removes many people from the role of
potentially productive workers into the ranks of the overhead bureaucracy
which provides the welfare, and whose salaries must come out of the moneys
collected for the purpose of providing that welfare.  It turns out to be
counter-productive in several ways.  

I will furnish upon request some statistics about how inefficient it is.


	    From the Soapbox of
	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

	    A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay.