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Do the Rich Pay Their "Fair Share"? No--They Pay More...The Fraud of Public Education for Minorities
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(Reason). This is so grossly inappropriate that it's actually unbelievable.
I really don't get why this is a "Reason" thing. This is a horrible act committed by an individual. Is the ridiculous proposition by the author that state schools promote and sponsor bullying by teachers? Really? That's what you're hanging your silly argument on?
Bullshit. It has more to do how the schools would respond to unethical behavior; this teacher would have been immediately terminated at any private school I know; parents can "vote" with their dollars and go elsewhere. There are typically teacher "due process" protections that operate in public schools; so far, despite compelling video evidence, the school is only committed to "investigating" the matter.
The teacher will certainly not be working there again. I'm mostly curious as to why Reason is writing about this. The same thing could happen at a private school with the same result. Subs aren't usually subject to as rigorous licencing requirements, so none of the normal libertarian party line stuff is applicable. Is it just plain click bait?
What a retarded OP. Parents enrolling their kids in private school always have an option if and when unprofessionalism occurs, and a private school would respond immediately because they depend on voluntary enrollments and this type of incident is an existential threat. This public school, even when presented video evidence of misconduct, to date is still "investigating" the incident.
(Rand Paul 2016). Marco Rubio wants to make the Patriot Act permanent. Here's what Justin Amash thinks about that.
Rubio also sides with Big Sugar and rejects reforming our failed Cuban policy.
comments to yesterday's Libertarian Catholic thread:
The fascist economic illiterate has written a number of propagandistic comments most of which aren't worth my time and effort to refute in detail. (I didn't get emailed on the retarded comments.) But he has the morally repulsive audacity to defend progressive taxation, which is an abomination to any serious economist. He also is a retard playing the "fair share" talking point crap. There is nothing fair about stealing even more than a proportionate amount from other people.
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I recently commented in a forum that there were two primary facts that led to the unsustainable fascialist regime: the income tax, which paved to way to financing a large centralized state, and the Carolene Products decision in the wake of FDR's morally bankrupt attempt to pack the court after it struck down some of his socialist schemes. The Carolene Products case dealt with Big Dairy's coaxing Congress to prohibit interstate commerce of filled milk products. Carolene Products appealed on grounds of economic liberty. SCOTUS not only abandoned defense of economic liberty, but came up with the infamous Footnote 4, which in essence gave wide discretion to the tyranny of the legislative majority.
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I do want to pick up on a few other threads. First, to the fascist who calls himself a "liberal": there is nothing "liberal" about using the State to interfere in the economy or to steal and redistribute the property of others. Second, of course tariffs are still around: in part that's what "free trade" pacts like TPP and TTIP, among other things, deal with. Tariff hikes by "laissez faire" Hoover greatly exacerbated the Depression.
Third, I loathe the crackpot corporatist/plutocrat rhetoric; corporations are voluntary economically-efficient associations, extensions of our individual rights. There's a whole mythology about "buying elections" etc., when in fact no corporation can compel the vote of a political whore. Will there be businesses that look for their "fair share" of State-plundered property? Of course. But if the corporations ran America like the fascist asserts, wouldn't they have scotched the highest corporate tax rates or class warfare tax hikes? Corporations compete; they often have contrary goals. Consider the highly favored domestic sugar industry vs., say, candy manufacturers, bakeries, consumers, etc. The way you control for corruption is by shrinking the resources and authority of the State; don't put the cart before the horse. Also take the favorite whipping boys of the ignorant populist Left--the banks. Have you looked at how many American banks fail vs. elsewhere in the world, e.g., Canada? We've hardly had unregulated banks; anyone with a modicum of banking history (e.g., Rothbard and Selgin) will tell you we've NEVER had a laissez-faire banking system--we then make it worse by morally hazardly federalizing deposit insurance, putting the taxpayer at risk, and then get upset when banks come looking for bailouts... We free market types say, let the banks go under.
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