Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

Let's stick to the thing I responded to:

horatio: I'm pretty sure, however, if you asked everyone in the UK, poor-to-rich (as there is no progressive payment scheme here), to fork out 18k, you'd see a whole lot more people on the streets<<<

My response was and still is that the two are not really comparable.

It is an example to demonstrate that asking what is being asked of students is going to piss any group of people off, across the board, and that there is nothing uniquely "bad" about students. I believe it is compatible/comparable. At least for my purposes. It is a thought experiment asking: if someone was asked for 18k more than they were expecting to spend (like a student), without getting anything more for it, how would they react? The answer (in my own brain-lab) is "pissed off."

The reason why it is compatible has been gone over more than once. You think because students can-opt out of being students, they are different from someone who cannot opt out of paying the tax. This is a non sequitur. If they opt out they are not a student and don't fit into the parameters of the debate.

If I am misunderstanding you, explain why I am wrong and it is not comparable. I'm happy to be corrected in my use of examples.