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Re: Costs and Benefits
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:42:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
> If the cost is $3,400 per household, what is the value of the benefits?
Doesn't sound right. That figure is tiny compared to some of the
ideas proposed here, such as free university tuition. I think you
could only get about a month of schooling at a private university
for that price. (You can't compare to tuition at a public school
because they've already got a substantial sum of our money.)
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| (...) Ya, but is this war, on balance, worth more to me than a month of private schooling? I'm not sure. Both of these things have very hard to measure benefits. I'd suggest we compare against 3400 USD worth of LEGO (where the benefits are (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Tiny? Really? Ok, what would "free university tuition" cost per household? What would the benefits be? Compare that to this war. Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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