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What she's saying is that schools should teach facts, not ideals. She believes that ideals can be twisted by the people teaching it, or the society that's trying to reinforce it. Children should be taught facts, and should come up with their own ideals.

What is considered a "beneficial" ideal may not be considered such by another.

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From my perspective, I think that the US government should raise the debt ceiling for now to prevent a degradation of credit rating, introduce a slowly progressive tax % increase for everyone next year up to a certain percentage in a given period, give tax breaks to small businesses when hiring new employees, regulate volatile sectors that have the potential to derail like Wall Street and cut spending on unimportant services/agencies like the Botanic Garden, standardize the US educational system federally and give each state the power to use their money under federal moderation (if this hasn't already been done).

Oh, they're successful? Regulate them. We're broke? Tax them. No one's educated? Standardize them.

Raising taxes because the government can't manage or pay it's debts is like punishing the victim. Do you have any idea how much Americans are taxed already? And yet the solution for debt and money trouble is always to raise taxes, and the person saying this is usually completely ignorant of the burden it might cause other people.

I remember HS Economics saying that raising taxes is is a logical solution for a problem, just because the problem exists. And everyone soaked it up like sponges, without question. Teaching young impressionable children ideals in this manner is called indoctrination, and that's the death of a healthy people.

[Carnage]

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Raising taxes because the government can't manage or pay it's debts is like punishing the victim. Do you have any idea how much Americans are taxed already? And yet the solution for debt and money trouble is always to raise taxes, and the person saying this is usually completely ignorant of the burden it might cause other people.

I remember HS Economics saying that raising taxes is is a logical solution for a problem, just because the problem exists. And everyone soaked it up like sponges, without question. Teaching young impressionable children ideals as if it's "right" is called indoctrination, and that's the death of a healthy people.

American's aren't over grossly taxed, the richest just arent paying their fair share. Forbes claims that the 400 richest Americans pay an average rate of 18%, far below the 40% they should be paying. Government spending is out of control, but a large chunk of our debt comes from the Bush tax cuts. Yes it is stupid to tax the average middle class tax payer more because in all likelihood they are paying as much as they can afford; but the wealthiest 1% of our population isn't the victim.

I dont know about your highschool class, but in actual economics raising taxes isn't simply an ideology, there are scientific methods to predict the outcome and effect on the economy.

And furthermore, its fairly difficult to completely separate perspective and opinion from subjects that involve people and social issues. Its fine for a doctrine to lead a class such as economics so long as it is supplemented critical thinking. If the HS Economics course indeed claimed that raising taxes is a logical solution, then there should have been a logical explanation to accompany the solution.