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A man is walking down the road. He is, shall we say, a builder or painter and decorator. He has his own one-man business which is doing ok and he hopes his son will join him when he leaves school. He feels he's doing well. His tax burden is relatively small.
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No one in his family has been to university and he doesn't see why he should pay for other people's children to be educated. As he's walking down the road a car mounts the pavement and knocks him down. Paramedics arrive and police. Doctors and nurses in A& E assess him + X-rays
Surgeons put his legs back together. Nurses look after him and physiotherapists get him walking again. IT experts have designed systems to enable the police to find the culprit quickly. He is charged and taken to court where lawyers and judges do their bit. And so it goes on.
Who paid for the education and expertise of the doctors, nurses surgeons, paramedics, physiotherapists, radiographers, police, lawyers, judges, IT specialists etc because the amount the victim personally contributed was minimal?
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We all benefit from the education and skills we each bring to society and the more we understand that, the more our society will be stable and successful. Hard decisions will be made because of #Brexit and #coronavirus. Don't let us go down the wrong road.
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