Where the Means-Testing Logic Goes
16th November 2011
Now a Bloomberg News headline takes the means-testing argument to an entirely new level: “Taxpayers Billed for Millionaires’ Kids at Charter School.” It’s a public charter school, so one wonder what exactly Bloomberg News would propose as an alternative policy to prevent the situation it finds so headline worthy. Should the children of millionaires be barred at the doors from public schools that are open to other children? Or should they be forced to pay tuition to attend schools that other children attend tuition-free? Has it not occurred to the Bloomberg editors that the “taxpayers” and the “millionaires” are not two mutually exclusive groups and that millionaires actually turn out to pay a lot of taxes, too? What’s next — headlines about how taxpayers pay for roads on which millionaires are also allowed to drive? For playgrounds on which children of millionaires are allowed to run arou
November 16th, 2011 at 17:07
‘Means-testing’ should be saved for those areas in which it makes sense, like Social Security payments. ‘Means-testing’ for entrance into a public school is just silly.