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RE: Should Parents Be Forced To Vaccinate Their Children?
Not a fan of government mandates, especially when there is huge money at stake with lobbies having their political stooges craft laws that limit their liabilities. In another comment, I saw it stated that government pays us to send our kids to school and I don't understand how that logic was arrived at. We are forced to pay for these schools in many areas (all I have lived in) via property taxes, whether one has a kid in school or not. I have never met anyone who gave the authority for the schools in person, everyone I know has been told what we are paying and dependent on state, whether one can home school and if so in many cases how one has to do so.
Land of the free and all.
Hey, @practicalthought. Thanks for answering the poll question. :)
I can't speak for the commenter, but what I got out of it is, we the people can stop this, but we don't, for any and all reasons we could throw at it. The simple fact is, those we've elected to do our will end up doing their own, or some collective will that is against the people. And the more we let it go, the more difficult it not impossible it becomes to wrest it back.
While it's not us the government is paying to educate our children, the entities receiving the money certainly act like the government is paying them, rather than the people whose taxes go to pay for the education.
So, rather than give anything, we abdicate, and they take.