Re: Despite high school algebra focus, more students need remedial college math

Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> If we want them to pay taxes, then we have no morally justifiable
>> alternative.
>
>False.  The justification for taxes is TANSTAAFL.
>If people want to access the goods and services of the government
>that are funded by taxes, then they must pay taxes. Noone gets
>a free ride.

King George thought that Americans ought to help pay for the war
against the French and the Indians that Britain fought on our behalf
based on that principle.  The colonists felt otherwise, since they had
no vote, the result was a noted Tea Party and then a revolution.  Your
viewpoint lost.

lojbab
Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist
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