[jwalsh07]

Really? Gosh, I guess my work at AMD, Intel and Cray was all just a waste of time, then. Engineers, Medical doctors, Roadway Engineers, Lawyers, Pharmacists, Mechanical Engineers, Nurses, Teachers, Dentists and thousands of other careers all exist because of your tax dollars. I would say that your statement was naive in the extreme. There is more than even money that you wouldn't even be alive if it weren't for a sub-set of these folks. I know I would have died about 5 years ago without the services of a skilled surgeon. The surgeon went to a school, and this school was funded in part by tax dollars. No tax dollars, no school. No school, no surgeon. No surgeon, no Hodar. Pretty straightforward.

Are you a socialist? Because I pay for the services I recieve. In your country, is everything "free". Sort of one for all and all for one kind of thing?

[Hodar]

Are you a socialist? Because I pay for the services I recieve. In your country, is everything "free". Sort of one for all and all for one kind of thing?

Quite the opposite, actually. I have never stated, nor have I even implied that education should be 'free'. Historically speaking, people who receive 'entitlements' never appreciate them. I paid for my education myself, this meant delivering Pizza, stocking shelves and running my own business while going to college full time. However, I also know that if the college I attended were not funded in part by taxdollars, only the extremely wealthy could even contemplate sending their children to school. It would be nearly impossible for any person to fully fund their own education.

That is why I have never objected to paying school taxes, even while I was single. The school taxes go towards education, the education will create bright minds, who will someday return the investments made in them.