>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: New Government?
>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:13:14 -0400
>
>phil osborn wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > As I recently said, "The solution would be corporate sponsorship."
> > > >
> > > > If you value life, *value* life!
> > >
> > >Imagine the following:
> > >
> > >Welcome to Union Carbide High School, home of the UCHS Gassers...
> > >because we care.
> > >Tonite our team is playing the boys of the Mighty Lockheed Bombers,
> > >visiting from Ground Zero Stadium...
> > >
> > >I am all for competition and merit in student acheivement, and no
> > >mainstreaming. I am especially for competition and merit among teachers
> > >(break the NEA monopoly), but pasting a corporate logo on my kid so he
> > >can go to school? Thats the kind of irresponsible idea that the morons
>I
> > >talk of in my prior post would be all for...
> > >
> > So you actually think that it's better to take money from people who
>happen
> > to have preferences for lifestyles different from yours, at the point of
>a
> > gun, money which is then allocated by bureaucrats with no stake in the
> > outcome toward whatever passes for "education" among the elite parasites
> > from academia - the people who told my parents not to ruin me by
>teaching me
> > to read at the age of three; wait for the experts to do it at six. The
> > jerks who spread racism throughout the South. Right.
>
>Hey moron, where in my post did I say anything about government
>confiscatory policies to fund education? I'm the last person to support
>that. Coming from New Hampshire, private school capital of the world, I
>know how much better private schools are than public ones, and not one
>private school that I know of even allows corporate logos pasted on
>students or school property.
>
>Mike Lorrey
>
You didn't finish your quote....
To wit:
"My personal favorite is to fund education with taxes on stupid behavior: drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, pollution, gambling, logging... etc. Thus its a negative feedback effect: the smarter the kids become, the less need there is for more education... This to me is the optimum way to have 'price' signalling in education." Mike Lorrey
Wonder why you cut it off???? ;)