11-04-2004, 02:08
Repeal the Free Education resolution (Education For All
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice Strength: Significant Proposed by: Otnemem
Description: To give every child under the age of 16 the right to a free education
Votes For: 4515
Votes Against: 1081
Implemented: Wed Jan 8 2003)
This is easily taken care of by the private sector, and with much greater effciency than any government is capable of. According to the common thought “it is a government’s job to give everyone an education, for the greater good of the society.” The real crux of the matter is where the resources to do this are coming from. The government in order to produce this “greater good” actually doesn’t produce anything. It basically just goes home to home and extorts the money necessary. Even people that aren’t benefited have to pay. Someone that didn’t get an education, or has no kids. Also, the payment is disproportioned; some people pay significantly more than others. Moreover this payment isn’t necessarily voluntary, and when taken literally is simply either robbery or, because it is known and “legal”, slave labor. The reasoning behind it is to stop a cycle of poverty from occurring. Poor simply because their parents were poor and couldn’t afford education for them. But, does misfortune constitute right to slave labor? Another argument is that if we turn education over to the private sector no one but the very rich will get any. I quote Nathaniel Branden, “If, for many years, the government had undertaken to provide all the citizens with shoes (on grounds that shoes are an urgent necessity), and if someone were subsequently to propose that this field should be turned over to private enterprise, he would doubtless be told indignantly: ‘What! Do you want everyone except the rich to walk around barefoot?’”(Rand 91) Other urgent needs of the community are handled by private enterprise, not to mention these are done more efficiently.
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice Strength: Significant Proposed by: Otnemem
Description: To give every child under the age of 16 the right to a free education
Votes For: 4515
Votes Against: 1081
Implemented: Wed Jan 8 2003)
This is easily taken care of by the private sector, and with much greater effciency than any government is capable of. According to the common thought “it is a government’s job to give everyone an education, for the greater good of the society.” The real crux of the matter is where the resources to do this are coming from. The government in order to produce this “greater good” actually doesn’t produce anything. It basically just goes home to home and extorts the money necessary. Even people that aren’t benefited have to pay. Someone that didn’t get an education, or has no kids. Also, the payment is disproportioned; some people pay significantly more than others. Moreover this payment isn’t necessarily voluntary, and when taken literally is simply either robbery or, because it is known and “legal”, slave labor. The reasoning behind it is to stop a cycle of poverty from occurring. Poor simply because their parents were poor and couldn’t afford education for them. But, does misfortune constitute right to slave labor? Another argument is that if we turn education over to the private sector no one but the very rich will get any. I quote Nathaniel Branden, “If, for many years, the government had undertaken to provide all the citizens with shoes (on grounds that shoes are an urgent necessity), and if someone were subsequently to propose that this field should be turned over to private enterprise, he would doubtless be told indignantly: ‘What! Do you want everyone except the rich to walk around barefoot?’”(Rand 91) Other urgent needs of the community are handled by private enterprise, not to mention these are done more efficiently.