bogarde73 wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2014 at 1:03pm:
alevine,
Funding to private schools should be looked at as a return on the education component of tax, which the parents have already paid. Surely all parents are entitled to some return for that part of the tax dollar.
If you're going to say in response, let all the kids go to public schools, you're really making an idealogical argument.
Apart from that, there are not enough public schools to cope.
The same arguments can be put for the private health rebate.
As to mining, what handouts do you have in mind? You are surely not talking about the depreciation allowances on plant, to which all businesses are entitled as an operating cost.
Actually this has nothing to do with wanting all kids to go to public. But simply that the proposal to fund pirate schools was on the basis that it would reduce private school fees and give access to more disadvantaged kids. Yet, study after study has shown this to have been a miserable failure and 70% of under privileged kids still, like before, go to public schooling.
So, given the result aimed at was not achieved, the only appropriate course of action is to stop the program, ie the funding. And the very idea you think people should get something for their tax dollar, well bad luck. You get the services the government funds. But if you want to use a private service, you are welcome to do that but should not expect this to somehow be funded by the government.
As for funding to mining companies, I mean these
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-25/nrn-dist-mining-subsidies/4778042 These so-called 'disadvantaged' kids will never go to private schools and no amount of changes will ever do that. These are the lazy sods that get newspaper articles written about them complaining they have to pay $23 A YEAR for stationery at a public school 'that is supposed to be free'.
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