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From: chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: who should pay for education. sort of.
Message-ID: <218@fornax.uucp>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 16:35:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 16:35:59 1987
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WARNING COMMENTS FOLLOW FROM A NOTED LEFTIST!!

> In article <215@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
> >Insist that people whose tuition is paid sign
> >a promissory note for the full cost of their education which would
> >become payable if and when they decided to leave the country on a
> >permanent basis.  
> 
> Reasonable, if you allow them to deduct, yearly from their debt the difference
> between their taxes and the mean income tax of the average Canadian.

You mean those who benefit the most (financially) will have to pay back the
least ? 

I would find it reasonable that a certain portion of your debt be retired
every year after you leave school. Say 5%-15% per year.

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. 
> We may also wish to consider letting the parents, if they pay above-mean tax,
> to deduct an appropriate portion of their above-mean tax from the debt.

What do your parents have to do with this? You are presumably an adult
when you are old enough to attend university. You incur the debt - you
pay it off.  If your parents support you thats between you and them.
 
> 
> Otherwise this concept of imprisoning people within an area until they pay
> off their debt or renounce their career is about the last thing I ever expected
> to hear from a noted leftist like Mr. Chapman!
> 
> All in all a silly idea.

It may interest you to know that some Canadians don't think it is silly
at all. In particular the Canadian Armed Forces.  They will pay your way
through school (not just fees but living expenses as well) and in return
you promise to provide your services for a certain period of time.
I know people for whom this was the only realistic way to get an education-
without a program like this they would have been stuck for life.
Just what do you find so silly about this?

> -- 
> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473

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