“Education to the extent that it raises an individual's future earnings, increases her future tax payments; in the absence of any subsidy, an individual's investment in education confers a 'dividend' on future taxpayers.”

—  Nicholas Barr

Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, School Education, p. 297-298

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