I ran across this statement on a discussion board about public education.

I am so sick of hearing the complaints about compulsory education.

Perhaps we could regulate debate. Everyone could pay a certain amount of debate tax each year. Certain stances could be limited by debate tax penalties and other stances could be encouraged through debate tax exemption of debate tax credits.

Then you could debate with people from lower economic classes and be reasonably assured that compulsory education complaints rarely arise.

I know some of you are thinking that a debate tax would limit free speech, but the obvious success of regulation of education proves that regulating debate would only make debate better and higher in quality.

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