Private schools

[Lunar]

Of course.  If a rich person wants to pay money for a private school, I, the tax payer, don't have pay as much!

[Lunar]

The parent will teach his or her child their religious views no matter what, I fail to see how it increases the freedom of the child as he will still have his parents' beliefs imposed on him from birth.

It would be amazingly expensive to ban private schools as well.  We'd have to pay for millions and millions more children, which would require raising taxes and hurting the economy (in addition to putting the thousands of private schools out of business).

[Lunar]

At least the child would be exposed to other ideologies in private school....this would certainly increase his or her freedom to make educated decisions in the future.

I don't understand.  Are you arguing the other side?

How would getting rid of private schools hurt the economy?  Instead of paying huge tuitions to corporations, parents would just pay the government more in taxes.  This should be cheaper overall, since the public schools don't have to run a profit margin and can achieve greater economies of scale.

Average Joe, who does not send his children to private school, has to pay taxes now to send all of these new children there.  He can't pay his rent now.  Oh crap.

McDonald's now has to pay more taxes and charge more for their BigMacs.  Now all of the Average Joes who buy food there can't, and their monthly food bills go up, giving them less discretionary spending and making them less likely to buy TVs and luxury items that would help the economy.  Oh crap.