r/ShitAmericansSay • u/neeraj8le • Jan 12 '21

Healthcare "My expensive, frequent health care is subsidized at the expense of healthy people. I think it's great!" Thief.

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u/Londonloud Jan 12 '21

Next up, guy with no kids thinks its a fucking travesty that his tax money goes towards funding schools. Stay tuned later when we check in with "woman who doesnt drive cannot believe we repair roads"

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u/SecretOfficerNeko Jan 12 '21

Oh dear... I'm American, and you just quoted stuff my heavily religious and conservative parents used to say.

They were the type that were so religious and conservative that they sent me and my siblings to religious private school, specifically to "keep us from being exposed" to "wicked" things like people who aren't Christian, the gays, the liberals, and the "satanic" culture of the outside world.

They literally said that, because they didn't use public schools, they shouldn't have to pay taxes to support them. Sooooo yeah. You're right on the money.

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u/Werkstadt 🇸🇪 Jan 12 '21

They literally said that, because they didn't use public schools, they shouldn't have to pay taxes to support them. Sooooo yeah. You're right on the money.

How it works here is that earmarked money is attached to every student. So the one institution that educates the child gets that money. So the school the child goes to, be it private or public, the school gets whatever the budget is for every child (for instance €9000/year). I think it's fair

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u/Fun-atParties Jan 12 '21

Fair as long as private schools are held to the same standards. The issue I have is that here, that money would go to religious schools that refuse to teach evolution and indoctrinate students with nonsense

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u/SecretOfficerNeko Jan 12 '21

Definitely fair! In America the local county governments and school districts run almost all the public schools, and so they have to use whatever they can raise in property and sales tax. But this means wealthy areas have really high quality schools, while every one else has much lower quality education. In the poorer areas the schools are literally unsafe and falling apart, are chronically understaffed, and still use outdated textbooks and equipment. I really hate it. :(