& whats their tax rate now? I heard France is around 75%, unless ya make like a million pounds/ yr,, then its like 101%,, surely that cant be true..

All these rich clowns pushing for higher taxes dont pay taxes..

here we already get garnished wages if ANY branch of the govt thinks you owe $..

for example if the DOE thinks you didn't pay enough interest on a student loan they will garnish wages with no need for a judge, soon our bank accounts will be fair game

Paraquat wrote on 05/13/14 at 09:06:50:


That is like burning your own house down to collect the insurance. Everyone knew in advance, including her, that her degree was useless but she did it anyway. Art History, Feminism, Sandskrit and Gender Studies are all totally worthless degrees. Maybe if ancient transgender lesbians encoded the key to limitless clean energy on cave walls in Austria then this would payoff...for a couple months.

Going to school and getting a degree in this day and age means you had the fortitude to pass enough classes to get a piece of paper to put on a wall.  At best it puts you in position where you have a long shot a finding a job in the field that you studied.  More than likely you won’t find a position in the discipline that you studied and will accumulate a significant amount of debt.  In my experience, it hasn’t been since the early 90’s where going to college meant you had a good chance a finding a job.

Going to college isn't going to vocational school, unless you are studying a technical subject like engineering.
My undergrad degree is in history and political science.  Useful vocationally in itself?  No.  But I knew I was going to law school, which is vocational education, and I had to have a bachelor's degree first.
But a liberal arts degree does a lot for a person - just awareness of what's around you is important.
My mother's family are Appalachians with little education - some probably don't even know who the president is, and I know they don't know who their Congressmen or Senators are.
Education, especially higher education, equips one for many jobs that aren't technical like engineering is.  My college years taught me to write, to speak with proper grammar, and to appreciate music and other intellectual pursuits.  Without writing skills and proper grammar, I would not have been able to publish 4 books and over 300 magazine articles.
Yet, without a technical degree, I've always made a living.  I'm not knocking technical education, I'm just saying that all education is beneficial.
If you study the "basket weaving" majors, one just has to know going in that in itself, that education won't pay off economically.  But it can be a stepping stone.