Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
DC Public and Public Charter Schools
Reply to "Norton Secures Expansion of DCTAG in House Appropriations Bill"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC should only give TAG $ to families making under $200,000. That way they can increase the yearly amount to $20K per year to be used towards both tuition AND housing costs. Average American family income is less than $70,000. A family making 3x the average doesn’t need government help. [/quote] This is a well-intentioned fallacy. Means-testing increases burden for the people who most need help. The cost of helping the relatively few wealthy families who send their kids to public school is absolutely worth the increase in lower-income families who will take advantage of the benefit if there are fewer hurdles. And when more families across the income spectrum benefit, it’s harder to take the benefit away; just look at Medicare, which no one will ever touch because wealthy seniors would revolt. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
