/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3848105
I think people wouldn't understand it.

Great way to collect money from stupid people and put it towards good things like schools/roads.

>>3848111
>implying schools need more money

>>3848107
Only the ones being taxed, amirite or amirite

>>3848113
>implying they don't

>>3848117
You're one of them.

OP wants to pay more taxes.

>>3848120
Na, you're one of them, its okay, you're just far too stupid to know.

>>3848119
b-but spending has been going up with no improvement whatsoever. You're just paying people who didn't major in hard science to get more money to babysit kids.

>>3848124
ohboyherewego.jpg

How can you seriously reply to an inane provocation?

It already exists and it is called alcohol tax.

>>3848135
interesting...

It would never work because the people it would apply too have been trained into a dogma of fear. The instant they hear about the tax and they'll freak out and light things on fire.

there are math professors who have figured out how to win smaller lotteries consistently, by solely pursuing those lotteries that offer smaller and less attractive prizes.

i don't know how i feel about it, to be honest. the whole notion of raffles and lotteries just doesn't feel right for a 'defensive' person like myself, but people like it and it helps pays for infrastructure, so who am i to complain?

i will say, however, that the fact that some off track betting and sports stadiums have closed down shows that incredible miscalculations can be made even for these simple businesses. pray that those asshats don't ruin the lottery. tax money has to come from somewhere and lottery players buy into the system willingly (although heavy taxation on prize money seems kind of perverse).

>>3848105
Love it.

But understand the psychology of lottery and the economic stupidity is rationalized to some extent. When you buy a lottery ticket, you aren't just buying a 1 in x million chance of winning money; you're buying hope.

In the US, a large portion of lower income families pay no taxes. Lotteries are a way to extract money from them.

The cost and resources to test everyone will make the whole thing look trivial.

> a tax
> you have to opt in, and doing nothing is opting out

Pick only one.

>>3848119
>>3848113
>implying that the real issue isn't allowing teachers to unionize and be granted tenure.

>>3848442

> public employees
> union

Pick one.

>>3848442

Make teachers compete for their jobs by removing PUBLIC EDUCATION from the CLUTCHES of BIG BROTHER.

Step 1: Stop Giving Taxes to Public School System.

Step 2: Give taxes to students directly in the form of a voucher.

Step 3: Subsidize school growth, book costs, ect. for a SHORT period of time.

step 4: Watch American Education flourish as Children are now in a land of opportunity and teachers actually have to compete for their positions and aren't reduced to a state of apathetic stagnation.

>>3848451
>implying no public unions

>compete for their positions

that is already the case
result: deliberatedumbingdown.com

Why isn't Ron Paul president yet /sci/?

>>3848456

For most of the school districts in the country, most of the funding comes from LOCAL PROPERTY taxes. And just by coincidence, the schools with the highest tax bases.. are the best.

Now do you mean an actual tax on stupid people or do you mean the lottery? Because there seem to be mixed replies in this thread

>>3848462

Their boss would be the citizens, so the pay would drastically go up and down depending on the ruling party. And they could be eliminated with a vote.

>>3848477

> mfw thew top schools usually spend less than the national average per student