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Worth A Read: SBJ article on decline of prep sports
Sean Burges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Canberra | ACT | Australia | Posted: 2:23 AM on 08.05.10 |
->> Just to be massively provocative, is this really a surprise?
There is a limit to how often you can simultaneously cut taxes and increase public services delivered before you run out of money. It is the same principle as business -- you can't keep delivering more product for less pay, i.e., giving away major league sports photos for free simply to get access.
Each country has different ways of dealing with the social contract between citizen and government, but what it reduces to is that the government takes some of your money and in return it provides certain common goods. Consistently demanding (and accepting) a lower tax burden is an implicit agreement to accept a reduction in services such as school sports. The larger societal problem in many countries is that the citizenry is not being asked to bend its mind around this problem in a way that would involve a rational discussion about the potential need to raise taxes.
Imagine the school board's likely dilemma: we can cut math, science and English, or we can cut varsity sport and end childhood dreams of glory. It is a choice between two bad options, but a choice that in the end really is a no-brainer.
My guess is that story is pointing to much rougher times ahead for folk on the service end of the US market, which includes many photographers. |
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