Do you think the government should tax private school fees?

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    10 days ago

    You seem to think that rich parents paying their taxes whilst not sending children to state schools is a benevolent act. It’s no more benevolent than rich people paying their taxes who don’t have children.

    Paying your taxes without being the sole beneficiary isn’t a benevolent act, it’s a moral and legal obligation, and we take from people not according to what we spend on them, that would be the abolition of taxation, but we take from them according to how much income they have.

    Honestly, the whole argument from “by rights the state owes me because they didn’t spend some of my taxes on me” it’s really entitled.

    So yeah, children’s clothes etc are discounted for vat because having kids is expensive for everyone, and some people can’t afford it. But private education isn’t benefiting anyone except rich people and it’s legitimate to decide we can’t afford it after years and years of austerity where somehow this escaped the knife because it would have affected actual Conservative MPs, so obviously we can’t have that.

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      10 days ago

      If you keep telling me what I think, you’ll easily win this argument .