Do you know what Socialism is?

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Do you know what Socialism is?
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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 10:15pm
Can you describe Socialism?

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Registered: 02-19-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 9:47pm
Why would vouchers close down most public schools? To my knowledge, no candidate in favor of them has said a public school couldn't take them.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:24pm

>Why would vouchers close down most public schools? To my knowledge, no candidate in favor of them has said a public school couldn't take them.<


Public schools already have a large problem with funding. Currently, our school systems are funded on a per student basis. If vouchers were to be instituted as is proposed, state and local governments would have to take the whole "pie" as it were that is currently allocated to public schools and divide it over all the students in the locality/state. (The Federal government provides less than 10% of the funding for public schools. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_162.asp).


Now, in order to ensure that all the students are funded equally within a locality, either the state/local government will have to raise revenues to continue funding at the current per student

Sandy
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Registered: 04-02-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:32pm

Why do so many foreigners come here for education?


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 10:50pm
Do you mean for a college education? That's easy--because it's really easy to get into American schools.

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Sandy
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 12:33am

((((Bush tax cuts" lowered taxes for everyone- not just the rich,))))


It depends what side of those "cuts" you are on...the streets look mighty "red" right now. Why should the wealthy get the tax cuts that are two times

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:10am

Not sure about that either. ALL European countries have some way of making sure that everyone has health coverage, but not all the systems are "socialized." Either way though, it does not amount to socialism.

I really think it would be easier to discuss if the misconception that any kind of universal health care, for example, is "socialism" was cleared up once and for all.

Another example was Obama's idea of making preschool universal. That is no more socialism than is having a public school system.




Edited 10/31/2008 2:15 am ET by sild
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Registered: 10-20-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 3:59am

>>> It depends what side of those "cuts" you are on...the streets look mighty "red" right now. Why should the wealthy get the tax cuts that are two times what the middle-class received? That's insane.

Why should "the rich" pay 80% of the taxes? That's insane.

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Registered: 05-27-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 4:11am
Socialism is an economic theory not a political theory
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Registered: 05-27-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 4:18am
Would you say that our K-12 public education system is socialism?
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Registered: 09-04-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 11:55am

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