[tivodan1116]

Quote by: Milton Bradley The Constitution says that taxes shall be apportioned "evenly".

No, it doesn't. The word "evenly" does not appear in the Constitution anywhere.

Quote by: lsbskins1 This is silly on it's face. The government absolutely does a better job of maintaining an Army than private industry would.

My quote said domestic function. Government is useful for the purpose of maintaining foreign relations and a few other things.

The government absolutely does a better job of running our court system than private industry would.

You have zero basis for making this argument and it is essentially meaningless. However, I'll preemptively respond while I wait for whatever evidence you think points to this... Take a look at the rise of private mediation and arbitration as PUBLIC courts become crammed with cases and justice becomes slow and unwieldy. Plea bargaining and negotiated settlements are a private result of our public failure to have enough time to fully prosecute every case.

Careful, you're treading on my area of expertise here.

And when it comes to comparing "private" to "public" schooling, before public education, there really was no public education.

And? How does this mean that it is "better" than public schools?

We aren't comparing whether or not Johnny Richboy gets a better education from his private school than Jimmy Poorkid gets from his public school. We're comparing whether or not Jimmy Poorkid gets a better education today than his great-great grandfather did before the advent of public education and whether this benefits all of society, even Johnny Richboy.

Why should we do that? That's not a fair comparison because the situation in our country, not to mention the type of knowledge one needs to have to be successful in our economy, has changed drastically from Johnny's great-grandfather's time. You made this comparison simply to grasp at some hopeless comparison by which you can possibly make the ridiculous argument that our public schools are worth the money being spent on them.

While you're "comparing", why don't you compare apples to apples - public vs. private schools in the same geographic vicinity? Or how about schools in USA versus other industrialized nations?

I could go on for days about John "I Know Who Pays My Salary" Stossel,

LOL. I know, he is the enemy of big-government, nanny-state, mommy and daddy government please wipe my bottom for me liberals because he actually demonstrates, via the use of facts, that where corporate waste and bureaucracy is concerned, it is best to start with the biggest, most wasteful, most bureaucratic, worst performing corporation on Earth - the Federal government.

but I'll spare you all but this - I could challenge anyone to demonstate, in simple economic terms, any domestic function that is preformed better by private indusrty than by government, and if I get to define "simple" and I get to define "better", I'll never have to give my money away. So John Stossel can eat a lump of slimey dirt.

Then go ahead. Define simple and better and show me a function. Then we can judge for ourselves. If your metrics for "simple" and "better" are ridiculous, we'll see that obviously.