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[jinx]

How about those of us who don't have the level of degree that you have get to decide, since we outnumber you?

Personally, I'm in favor of a flat tax, or tax based on consumption. Anything else is really just unfair, and reduces incentive to try and better yourself and your progeny.

You worked hard for your degree and you should be proud of it and all that it stands for for you - and I really don't think anyone should be able to take that away from you just because they think it would benefit them. That's my point. If you think it was a waste of time getting it because you can't pay the rent with it - why did you?

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by jinx

You worked hard for your degree and you should be proud of it and all that it stands for for you - and I really don't think anyone should be able to take that away from you just because they think it would benefit them. That's my point. [b]If you think it was a waste of time getting it because you can't pay the rent with it - why did you?

I didn't say it was a waste of time. I said I gained nothing tangible. I gained plenty of intangible things from it. And I was able to do it because my government subsidised my education: paid for by progressive taxation. Without that progressive taxation it would not have been subsidised. Without that subsidy I would have had no access to such higher learning. University would be far too expensive for the likes of me, a working-class woman with no property to borrow against and no savings to call upon.