A city wide blackout at Sun, 15 Feb 2004 05:55:16 GMT did not prevent Gunner
from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Vouchers are an interesting case. You still pay the same amount of
property taxes (which are used for schools) but your kids education
money is spent at the shool of your choice. The present system is
similar to being told you have to buy a house for X dollars, but the
powers that be tell you which house you have to purchase. It may be a
rat and roach infested shack or a nicer low income home. Wouldnt you
rather have the ability to pick which home you have to spend your
money on?

As I put it to a friend: you can have any car you want, but first you are
going to pay for this Trabat (at Mercedes prices.) Vouchers merely let you
take the payments for the Trabat and put them towards the car you really want.
(The flaw in this analogy is that everybody is paying the Mercedes price
["school taxes"] whether they are in the market for a car or not. But that is
another storey.)


tschus
pyotr

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pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."