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15. "Poor people wont be able to stay in the country, so you wont be surrounded by idiots" (DYSTOPIAN SA

Tue Apr 12, 2016, 04:24 PM

Apr 2016

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just smart people and the others will magically disappear due to gentrification.

Eventually it will just be a few successful folks.

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Why should we pay for other peoples’ education? [View all] Viva_Daddy Apr 2016 OP

Because they hopefully contribute to the nation's well-being... CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2016 #1

Offshore em! (SARCASM) Baobab Apr 2016 #13

We are not doing well with primary schools:we need to fix them 1st lewebley3 Apr 2016 #44

We all will need a doctor some day. We all need safe buildings and cars now. LonePirate Apr 2016 #2

The corporations benefit from an educated workforce. They should be helping pay rhett o rick Apr 2016 #3

If most of their workforce is overseas, no matter. JudyM Apr 2016 #4

Trade deals make it so corporations gain a right to transfer their employees anywhere they want Baobab Apr 2016 #27

That's the reasoning behind Value Added Taxes. JDPriestly Apr 2016 #12

No, globalization and falling need for human labor means that they should be able to take their pick Baobab Apr 2016 #14

They do 1939 Apr 2016 #21

To paraphrase George Carlin awoke_in_2003 Apr 2016 #35

Wait, what? Don't we do that already? Ratty Apr 2016 #5

Why should we pay for other peoples’ education? AlbertCat Apr 2016 #6

"Poor people wont be able to stay in the country, so you wont be surrounded by idiots" (DYSTOPIAN SA Baobab Apr 2016 #15

they don't want to bring up the quality of life... awoke_in_2003 Apr 2016 #36

If you don't want to pay for other kids' educations, you'd better be in favor of abortions. thesquanderer Apr 2016 #7

I had a highly subsidized education Turbineguy Apr 2016 #8

And we do. K&R. JDPriestly Apr 2016 #9

Yah. We pay for a lot of things. whatthehey Apr 2016 #10

If you don't pay for their education... weknowvino2 Apr 2016 #11

The post where Viva_Daddy realizes that most DU'ers only read the subject line and not the body of FSogol Apr 2016 #16

Hah! Right? AllyCat Apr 2016 #40

Amazing, isn't it? greatauntoftriplets Apr 2016 #41

Because WE ALL LOSE when people can't think critically or earn a decent living... eom vkkv Apr 2016 #17

I'd rather pay for the masses' education than the elites' wars. nt valerief Apr 2016 #18

It's a way of paying forward. lpbk2713 Apr 2016 #19

Thom Hartmann said today for every $ we spend on education we get back ErikJ Apr 2016 #20

Kicked! zentrum Apr 2016 #22

Because someone paid for our education Major Nikon Apr 2016 #23

What about when education doesnt lead to a job except for maybe 10% of us, should we rise to the cha Baobab Apr 2016 #24

The duty to educate really shouldn't only be about job training Major Nikon Apr 2016 #25

By mid century we will likely have sef aware computers that can do any human job. Baobab Apr 2016 #31

We've already been moving in that direction for at least the last 100 years or so Major Nikon Apr 2016 #32

Exponential growth means the rate of knowlege aquisition is building on itself. Baobab Apr 2016 #33

When an anti-choice person throws the "what if that aborted baby is Ilsa Apr 2016 #26

BOOM SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2016 #38

So very true. Stryder Apr 2016 #28

because they'll help pay higher taxes w0nderer Apr 2016 #29

But we dont have to go far into the future to find a world where only a few pay taxes because Baobab Apr 2016 #34

Kick azmom Apr 2016 #30

because I like and appreciate being around educated people Skittles Apr 2016 #37

Standing ovation!! Silver_Witch Apr 2016 #39

I don't have kids. But I pay a bunch every year in county taxes for schools. leftyladyfrommo Apr 2016 #42

and we'll all have to pay for the student debt--either through Washington or by MisterP Apr 2016 #43

if we educate Pharaoh Apr 2016 #45