tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post6994910240631701825..comments2024-03-28T18:57:15.124-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: A New Welfare Program For Wealthy Suburbanites?Andrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-38028885174946592942010-11-05T13:23:41.934-06:002010-11-05T13:23:41.934-06:00Canada has publicly funded religious schools as we...Canada has publicly funded religious schools as well.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-60260258766177265032010-11-05T12:56:36.309-06:002010-11-05T12:56:36.309-06:00This is the kind of stuff that has been going in S...This is the kind of stuff that has been going in Spain for two decades or so already and is a scam to taxpayers: the Catholic Church specially gets paid by the state instead of being the state the one providing directly for secular and civic education. <br /><br />The new Capitalism essentially seems to consist in taxing the public to pay private companies. And that is defended by the same ones who are against "big state" and "nanny state"... except when it's about subsidizing the rich and powerful with the taxes of all. <br /><br />It's absolutely decadent: the cusp of degeneration of both private and public sectors, an abominable hubris. Instead of getting the state redistribute a bit from the rich to the poor, it becomes a means of even greater robbery of the poor by the rich and powerful. <br /><br />This is the kind of "pull" element that would eventually get the denizens of the West in the position of welcoming even slightly less unjust invaders, if these happen to have any "push" at all (not right now certainly). <br /><br />Not that I think that's going to happen but that's how it works historically, that's how civilizations decay: by feeding corruption instead of justice.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com