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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private tutoring is a privilege.  It’s time for the rich to pay their fair share.  [/quote]

How much of someone else's money is fair?
[b]Stop spending it on things that are not essential services[/b]. We all now know that NGOs are really govt.-funded, as are most of the non-profits. Let those who support those missions pay from their own funds.  Get back to the basics. You donate and pay up.[/quote]

Sure.  OK.  But when it comes to the definition of "essential services," as the saying goes, "One man's trash is another man's treasure.  Trying to parse that out and come to agreement is difficult, at best, and not possible in the timeframe of the current decision.  Council's (intentional?) fault, there, but what can you do?

From a taxation perapective, let those who benefit most from our society's social contract, social constructs and legal statutes (e.g., those who have accumulated greater wealth, perhaps not exclusively benefitting, but certainly accumulating the preponderance of benefit vs. alternate societal paradigms) pay up.[/quote]

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