> drop and their income tax will drop. Also if everyone has less
 >(possessions-
 > wise) they have less for someone else to steal therefore reducing crime.
I dunno, Jim - I know some elements out here who will steal literally 
anything from anyone given the proper opportunity no matter how
valueless that item might be. Still, I agree that it's a stupid
bird which poops in its owns nest (ancient Polish proverb); these people 
usually do not steal from their immediate and equally
possession-less neighbors. They usually go out to Enchanted Lakes and Hawai`i 
Kai where the rich haole people live.
 > Also if everyone doesn't pay any taxes we won't have any of the schools
 > we have today and that will _CERTAINLY_ improve education.
But will more money really improve an education *standard*?
That might definitely depend on where you live. Here in Hawai`i, we have the 
Japanese Americans who, after practicing multiple decades of nepotism and 
favoritism in hiring, have infiltrated the education system as schoolteachers 
to the point that all teachers, like all mail carriers, are *assumed* to be 
Japanese. The quality of education here varies wildly from classroom to 
classroom and school to school because it totally depends on the brilliance, 
dedication and skills, or lack thereof, of only one segment of the population 
by race,
and the main qualifying element here is mainly that they BE Japanese 
American. That should be of no consequence whatever, but,
unfortunately, the system is so heavily imbalanced in hiring and
qualification that many otherwise talented people are not hired as teachers 
solely because they are not Americans of Japanese ancestry.
I would imagine there are just as many of these brilliant, dedicated and 
skilled AJA educators here as there are not, no matter what their race. My 
point here is that the odds for gaining brilliance in
education could be maximized if this nepotism/racism/favoritism
could be rooted out.
Some good friends of mine finally moved away to the Mainland in
disgust because of wrangling with these old people still in power here who 
have no concept that some children do have special needs which must be met by 
that state education system. The old way was to ignore and exclude children 
who could not meet an arbitrary norm, period. That is very, very slowly 
changing, so there is some hope.
But our tax dollars are given to teachers only most begrudgingly. There was a 
threatened strike that was narrowly averted recently by the State Teacher's 
union asking for a living wage. With adjustments for the difference in cost 
of living on the Mainland, of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, 
Hawai`i's teachers ranked 51st! (We are now 37th).
That's outrageous in a nation which should constantly strive to
improve its education system. Here, like on the U.S. Mainland, we allocate 
more funds for building more prisons and jails with fancy recreational and 
dining facilities than we do for schools. Our
criminals live in much better conditions in a jail than children see in any 
local classroom. There are better libraries in our local
prisons than in our schools - reality check time! That's mind-
boggling; that had to be *allowed* to happen. And it's time to
stop it.
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