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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: privatization of education
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Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 14:07:50 EDT
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> > In article <963@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> > > The University of California (through taxes) sucked my parents dry of 
> > > money to subsidize the education of people from middle-class and above
> > > families, so they were unable to provide any help to me.
> > > 
> > > Clayton E. Cramer ("You are damn right I'm upset.")
> 
> Your parents were poverty class?  Then they couldn't have paid too much in
> tax.  Remember that the middle class pays more than the poverty class and
> the upper class is *supposed* to pay more (ok, this argument about our
> screwed up tax system goes to net.taxes), so your parents' pennies were hardly
> subsidizing anyone.

Sales tax is highly regressive, and in California, its original justification
was to fund public education.  My parents worked, and paid income taxes
to California, and to the Federal Government.

I suggest you open ANY economics text, and you'll see that our tax system,
in practice, is not all that progressive.  (Nor should it be -- EVERYONE
gets taxed too heavily.)

Clayton E. Cramer