This is tired old left wing nonsense. It is the Robin Hood story rewritten.  It was nonsense then and it is nonsense now. You can always find a ready audience for this stuff.  People who don't pay tax and who don't understand the tax system will always want to make the rich pay more.  The top 10% of earners in this country pay 90% of  the taxes .  I have other things  to do with my life that to be jealous of what other people have.  As for why they put them in private schools it is because the union controlled teachers and their boards have such rotten records and in many cases teach the wrong things.  There is no discipline,  the unions protect bad teachers and the government meddles too much in the curriculum.  If you want your kids to learn about oral sex in grade 6 instead of mathematics or learning how to write good English then send the to Kathleen's public school system.