On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:14:59PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > If you are referring to your suggestions for cutting other Federal > programs
Yes. > and using that money for education, I dismissed that as unrealistic > because You might have said so, instead of asking where the money was coming from if not taxes! > (1) the whole system would have to change to allow Federal funding of > the basics rather than just add-on programs, Would this be a bad thing? Certainly change is difficult, but I think there are some things which can definitely benefit from Federal economies of scale and diversity, and in the long run, these things are worth the cost of changing. > and (2) the same people who don't want their taxes raised also believe > (correctly) that with Federal funding comes Federal control, and they > are not happy with some of the programs currently mandated by the > Federal government. Most of the ideas I mentioned do not really involve Federal control. It was more like a Federal smorgasbord for the teachers and schools to pick and choose from. > In fact, some of those mandates--where the states are told that they > must implement this or that program in the schools but no additional > money is given them to do so--are at least part of the problem. Agreed. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
