what a bunch of shit ricter.
Personal Income taxes creates less fluid classes and power for cronies and their politicians. The IRS scandals just gave you some insight.
if you can't keep what you make you can't challenge the cronies.
Cronyism creates the party the politicians - the drones - and the elite who pull the strings.
The education system is the exact system the dems want.
They want a society of needy drones.
Til I was 12, I went to school in the nyc school system.
P.S. 98 in Douglas Manor Queens N.Y.
I really liked my elementary school.
They separated out the classes in 1st grade by skills.
By 4th we were reading Shakespeare.
We had all sorts of challenging math opportunities.
We had chess clubs and competitions.
If you did well in class you were rewarded with activities.
They were trying to train great students and thinkers.
In seventh grade junior high was mugged for my bus pass 3 times. (they believe it had access to all buses and subways for free... but mine was not that pass.)
So my mom told my dad private schools.
My Dad said we will move to Greenwich Ct and go to public schools.
The NYC schools were just as good as the Greenwich public schools which were better than the Greenwich private schools by a long shot if you were advanced. The private schools did have good college connections.... but the public schools were still better.
That whole philosophy of challenging the best students to be the very best from elementary up... seems to be entirely missing from the system. It is drilled out of the teachers. The smart teachers lament they have to spend so much time teaching to the bottom of their classes and ignoring the top. Then even suggested the problem is that the classrooms are not tracked.
Its a choice made by the leftists and the democrats to raise drones for their voters and their crony donors.
If not, the system could be change in a week. Just track the kids.
Everything the left stands for is drones for cronies.
Everything libertarians stand for is make your opportunity in a dynamic class structure where you get to keep what you earn and have a chance to do what ever you want to be.
Quote from Ricter:
You and denner are basically describing methods for growing a caste system in the US.
Small differences in early conditions result in large differences in late conditions. And in a highly stratified society the rich kids are quite different from the poor kids. I'm not "crying" about it, but any man who has really thought about the big picture of his life and the lives of others realizes just how much luck there is in the family you're born into. It's all luck, actually.