[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'125698\' date=\'Jul 30 2006, 06:03 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'125677\' date=\'Jul 30 2006, 01:10 PM\']
You have just as many government services available to you as your elders do. Why shouldn't you pay your part?
(I can't wait to hear the answer to this one...)
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Yeah, well, when you're sitting with $30,000 in student loans, and you have a $6/work study job...every dollar counts.[/quote] I understand your predicament, but student loans are just one of many loans that you'll undertake in life, and that $6 work study job should lend itself to higher-level opportunities down the way. That's one of the trades that you make when you go to school; mortgaging the money you don't have today so your earning power will increase later on.
Maybe when the government is ready to make upper education a priority, instead of an asinine war in Iraq...I'd be willing to change my position.
How did your senator/representative vote on the resolution? If you don't like it, don't vote for that person again. Saying "I don't think we should have to pay taxes because I don't like where the money goes" is like saying "I'm going to drive 90 on the freeway because I don't like the local police force." It's a fallacious position.
Government does not have the responsibility of educating everyone in the country to the point where they can earn $57,300 a year at a cushy job. Personally, I don't think they should be educating anyone. The money could be put to use elsewhere. People would not have to stay in school if they didn't want to, and those who do want to will stick around, and the resulting product will be that much better.