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Out of interest where do you stand on educational vouchers? What about charter schools?
by jameshart 10y ago
Out of interest where do you stand on educational vouchers? What about charter schools?
- Tactic 10y agoMy children actually attend a tuition-free, public Montessori charter school and am personally fine with vouchers. I am all for choice and individual freedoms, rights and responsibilities.
- jameshart 10y agoSo if the government agreed to fund a number of local 'health insurance charters' out of general taxation in proportion to sign-ups - but just mandated that you had to sign up to one of those - would that be acceptable? How does that differ, really, from an individual insurance mandate?
- delinka 10y agoCollecting taxes and providing, by hiring a private company, a service vs. Mandating that I purchase a private company's services myself. In the first case, the government uses its bargaining power (all that money) to negotiate a lower price by requesting bids and selecting a provider. In the second case, I'm a captive customer with little, if any, bargaining power. My bargaining power does indeed depend on how this second arrangement is legislated and how many providers are available to me.