Comments on: Hard economic times and cost of tuition making college education further from reality for some http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2009/03/28/hard-economic-times-and-cost-of-tuition-making-college-education-further-from-reality-for-some/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: joseph http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/2009/03/28/hard-economic-times-and-cost-of-tuition-making-college-education-further-from-reality-for-some/#comment-121 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:25:32 +0000 http://utahlegislaturewatch.org/?p=385#comment-121 I disagree that education, let alone higher education, is a right. When I read “tuition-free” education I wonder if it is free for those students because somebody willingly donated their means, or because the State decided to tax more and then redistribute, taking a sliver for themselves. In the name of rights, right?

I support getting an education, and I support using “love and persuasion” to enable those seeking. I encourage myself and others to avoid the paternalistic tendency to Choose the Right for others.

I truly would like to believe that given the chance I would take my ed tax dollars and willingly donate them towards the education of others. In my opinion one needs not be convinced that the State is the least efficient medium of accomplishing the education of the people, assuming education is accomplished. Show me another route and I will take it, a route that is not incentivized towards failure and the ballooning of bureaucracy.

Actually I have been shown such routes. Now give me back some ed taxes so I can put that towards it as well.

I am pleased to find this blog, I have been looking for a better means of keeping an eye on the Utah legislature on a weekly basis. I’m sorry if I sometimes take the time to vent, usually towards the machine that I believe is current government. I also understand that my opinion is no more than that, a half-ignorant opinion.

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