Re: Accepting government money [was: Re: IT boot camp...]

From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 13:40:20 MDT


Max More <max@maxmore.com> said:

> At 06:16 PM 5/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> > > Since ALL universities in the country
> > > were state funded (this was England in the 1980s) my choice was
> > > state-funded or nothing. Since my ethical view was ethical egoist, I
> >didn't
> > > believe I had to forego my education. What I did was to relentlessly and
> > > publicly speak out against state education and in favor of privatizing
> > > education.
> >
> >You'll be happy to hear that by the time I or anyone else in Britain taking
> >a four year course leave university we will have a £12,000 loan to pay off.
> >This bud's for you Mr. I want to pay man 8-))
>
> Excellent! No more coerced subsidy of those who will be wealthy by those
> who won't. (On average.)
>
> Max

But most tax dollars (that fund the subsidy) are paid by those who are
wealthy or somewhere in the middle. THose who are not wealthy pay relatively
little.



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