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To: Scenic Sounds
Sarcasm?

In case you were being serious (series?), I never said government must provide such services, only that they are reasonably left in the government sector.

When we have got rid of the big programs, the ones that swallow 85% of your taxes, the ones that are entirely about income and wealth redistribution then we can worry about the role of government in sewage disposal!

.... but somehow, I feel you were being sarcastic.
96 posted on 02/16/2004 3:12:55 PM PST by evilC (I am only a bit statist .... really!)
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To: evilC
When we have got rid of the big programs, the ones that swallow 85% of your taxes, the ones that are entirely about income and wealth redistribution then we can worry about the role of government in sewage disposal!

.... but somehow, I feel you were being sarcastic.

Well, I confess to a little sarcasm, at times, under the right circumstances, when I feel up to it, and when the stars are just so, but I don't feel that using public funds to support public education is any less defensible than using public funds to support sewage disposal, police, fire or the courts. To the extent that government involvement in these things redistributes income and wealth (whether upward or downward), I think that the tax side of these issues is as important as the funding side.

My experience has been that government seems to become involved in those areas that the private sector avoids or performs inadequately. This country is committed to educating its young and is committed to educating all of its young. Surely, there are many ways to improve the way we do that, but I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the strength of that underlying commitment.

100 posted on 02/16/2004 3:24:03 PM PST by Scenic Sounds (Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
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