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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Oh, and just to head this off: I’m extremely sorry that I am not rich enough to be able to pay for full time care for my school age child. Really! I feel terrible about it. But I can’t change that right this second, so I’m gonna need some alternatives. Otherwise, you’re just going to be paying for my healthcare when I finally completely lose it and have to be admitted to a mental hospital and my child becomes a ward of the state. Sorry for being middle class I guess? [/quote]

Give me a refund on the share of my tax dollars that pay for public schools. I will use that to send my kids to private school, where they might actually learn something this year. [/quote]

[b]Sure, just as soon as you pay back the taxes of all the childless people in DC who have been funding your kids' educations until 2020, since they aren't getting anything for their money. Also, I've never needed a fire truck so I want my money back for that too. .. Guess what, public education is considered to be a public good, we all pay taxes for things we don't necessarily use ourselves, because they are necessary for the collective good.[/b] [/quote]

i dont think your analogy quite works. it would be more like if you paid taxes to fund the fire department, and then you had a house fire, and the fire department refused to help you -- except over a zoom call.

the situation with public schools is more similar to people paying $60,000 to send their child to college, and then the college canceling everything except for professors' zoom calls, and parents wanting at least some of their $60,000 refunded. [/quote]

Um, that is precisely what a whole lot of Ivy League colleges are doing? And how exactly are you paying $60000 in DC taxes for schools? We live comfortably and pay about $10,000 to DC per year (plus federal taxes) and obviously not all of that goes to school. And forget the analogy, what about all the people in DC whose kids are older, don't go to public schools, or don't have kids? Do they get to stop paying taxes because some of them might be going to things that they don't derive a personal benefit from? Schools, police, highways, etc. are all considered public goods - that means we pay for them, regardless of whether we use them, because it is beneficial to the community at large to have those things. Forget the fire department, should everyone who is carless in DC demand a portion of their tax money back for things like road repaving because they don't personally use those roads? It's a ridiculous argument.  [/quote]

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