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It's Education...Stupid

jonkanner Wrote: Sep 03, 2012 3:43 PM

China and India also "graduate" FAR more near-slaves than we do. They are huge countries. I do not mean to minimize the problem you are trying to highlight, because it is a very real problem, but perhaps the bigger problem, or the root of the problem is the lack of motivation to learn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) skills at any level of education. If kids do not embrace these fields by high school, they cripple themselves for a college education in most fields that lead to a majority of the financially productive and socially useful degrees. You wanna be a doctor? you better know math and science! a bookkeeper? math. Video game creator? Math and technology (and art). etc etc. I will spare you the obvious lawyer jokes.

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It's Education...Stupid

Not only can countries not tax themselves to prosperity, but they also can't tax themselves to a better education. You can steal money in the name of the so-called middle class and distribute it to unions and social welfare programs, but it won't make matters any better.

On the contrary, redistribution would make matters worse because once higher taxes rob bank accounts it proceeds to rob incentive. The chain of events would eventually mean fewer rich people to slaughter but more people in line to share the spoils. This pirate economics is reckless, demoralizing, and dishonest.

Beyond outright theft, the dishonest...