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Working class kids go to private schools too. Surely they deserve some funding?
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Not
if they're sent for all the wrong reasons. Latest figures indicate that
overall the supposedly poor category 10-12 private schools receive higher
subsidies than the average public school.
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We pay our taxes so we deserve at least 30% back.
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Firstly, we suspect that private school parents don't pay their fair share of tax.
The Australian Taxation Office in 1997 reported that 80 of Australia's richest 100 people declared incomes of less than $25000.
Taxation is also about redistribution of wealth. If the richest 30% got their tax back there wouldn't be much point in having a tax system. It would be a form of upper class welfare: "Robin Hood in reverse".
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I don't want to sacrifice my kids on the altar of the common good.
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OK, but don't expect the 70% of taxpayers who have their kids in Public Education to subsidize elitist choices. Train travellers shouldn't have to subsidize Rolls Royce owners.
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By sending our kids to private schools, we are saving the government money, and thus the cost of education.
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Not really, it's establishing a culture of both government subsidy and compulsory/exclusive school fees. It widens the class gap in education as well as increasing costs for parents overall.
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