Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:12:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: the tax refund debate


on the tax refund debate, schools, welfare, etc.

1. What's wrong with sending our children to private
schools? (Is Georgetown not a private educational
institution?) So long as the federal gov't decides to
spend the tax money on weapons to further destroy Iraq
and whatever other countries it sees fit, rather than
putting it into the future of the children through
decent public educational systems I see no big problem
with spending the extra dollar to make sure that a
child gets a solid education with which he or she
might later help to change existing problems within
this society that forces students to pay exhorbitant
prices for textbooks, etc.

2. While it is nice to live in the world of ideas,
reality at some point sets in on everyone when they
have a high heating bill, rent, mortgage, high private
school (university or primary/high school- take your
pick) etc. While I do not support the current US
president I was happy to receive my $300. Why, I
recently had to relocate and am in the process of
trying to find a job and it came in pretty handy to
help pay my rent? If that money had not have come I
would be struggling even more. We all struggle at some
point- that's life. 

3. Maybe instead of arguing over the tax rebate people
should take up an argument about how much $$ is being
spent on bombs annihilate 'third world' countries for
the sake of US national interests. The U.S. spent 37%
of the world total on weapons last year. That's more
than all of the EU countries combined. I would say
that that's repugnant considering that not one missile
has been fired at this country in all of its years.
Could that money not better be spent on a socialized
health care plan, welfare programs, education, etc.?

greg

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