>> Teaching employees basic literacy skills is definitely
>> not the
>> company's responsibility
>
>And why not?
>If whoever wrote that (and I can guess but don't know)(and
>many think it) also thinks that tax is theft and should be
>minimised or abolished, then whose responsibility is it?

hang on Russell, in NZ at least the companies ARE funding the training 
through their normal company tax, that is used to provide for the schools 
that are not providing the basic literacy skills. They shouldn't then need 
to set up their own school to teach new employees what they should have 
learnt at primary school.

>Fire services were initially first funded wholly by
>insurance companies and even now are a major contributor.

Correct, and all fire insurance premiums (in NZ at least) have a dollop on 
top even now to fund the fire service (unless something has changed in the 
last 10 years). But that is different to having to teach the firemen 
attending your house fire how to fight it, which is the equivalent of what 
companies are having to do with literacy problems. 

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