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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Ian really does espouse the politics of envy, which are falsely grounded.
What free ride have people enjoyed from sending their kids to private school? They’ve shelled out for that education and relieved the state of the burden for educating them. A fair qui pro quo to any reasonable person.
The state gets the free ride.
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Which says a fair bit more about your extreme libertarian dog-eat-dog mentality than you probably intended.
The logic of your position is that all of us only pay for what we use, or perhaps if we at least accept the necessity of taxes we should go looking for discounts where we can show there are services we don’t use. My neighbours where I grew up never had children at all and thus gave the state a free ride. Should they have had VAT back on something else by way of compensation?
VAT exemption (which is what Labour is now proposing to remove, it seemingly being legally more straightforward than removal of charitable status) is typically granted on products and services that are essentials and most definitely not luxuries. As a universal eduction is available in this country a private education is a luxury service and there is no justification not to tax it.