I continue to see posts on social media defending the proposition that those who are either childless or who have reached a certain age should no longer pay taxes to support education. I confess that I’d rather pay no taxes for anything. I also know that we often get what we pay for.

As long as we don’t need any doctors, nurses, engineers, pastors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists, younger than we are, I guess we’ll be ok not educating the coming generations. We’ll save lots of money!

Or I guess we could be satisfied with only children of those who can afford to educate their children getting an education. Perhaps those who do not have parents wealthy enough to pay for their education should just do manual labor jobs, say in the farm sector. Since we’ll have fewer educated people, we’ll have to revert to older methods of farming that are manpower intensive, so that’ll help employ masses of less-educated people. For some, this will have the added benefit of putting a damper on immigration. Instead of having people coming across the border to do the grunt work on our farms we’ll be able to fill those jobs with our own children, leaving no room for immigrants.

Sarcasm aside, I’d rather have an educated populace. I think we’d all be better off if children – our own and those in other families – received more education. I even think we’d be better off if we invested in educating the children of those who may have entered out country illegally.