Taxing our kids' futures
published: Tuesday | May 13, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
IT IS Child's Month! While some sectors of the society are busy fussing over our children, their future, our expectations for them and their needs - needs for example, for good education, or at least the attainment of literacy; one small sector is preoccupied with strategising to make it even more difficult for the majority of those whom we celebrate to meet these needs.
Many children, go through the school system already ill-equipped at current cost. Is the levying of taxes on books, of whatever type, the way government shows support for the ideas of compulsory education and equal opportunities and literacy for all? Maybe Jamaica's children could make some suggestions as to how the government could raise the money they would from taxes on educational supplies.
