Paul Johnson wrote:
> You directly benefit (even without kids) by being surrounded by (relatively)
> educated people. Just like freeways: While bicycles may be allowed on most
> of them, odds are bicyclists are paying for miles of urban freeway that is
> closed to bicycles. Is it fair that people who get around by bicycle on
> roads that, in many states they have a constitutional right to ride on, have
> to pay for freeways that you have to earn the priveledge of a driver's
> license to use? Yes, because odds are they indirectly benefit by the freeway
> being there by the availability of goods that would otherwise be stuck at the
> rail depot, seaport, or entirely different city without urban freeways.
No, they're not the same, Paul. First off I can see and point out potholes
in the roads and get them fixed. I do not consider what the public schools in
this nation as educating. While I may benefit from an educated public I do
not see such an educated public.
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Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?
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