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The government should not be running any schools at all. They can impose taxes to fund them, but everyone should go to private schools that operate on the free
by MichaelBurge 10y ago
The government should not be running any schools at all. They can impose taxes to fund them, but everyone should go to private schools that operate on the free market. Then you wouldn't need to ask the government to build another school; you could just do it.
- analog31 10y agoThe government would still have to operate schools, because of two failure modes: 1. Lack of capacity: Families that can't find schools for their kids, or entire regions that are "school deserts." 2. Schools that fail or go bankrupt. Both are cases of private businesses pocketing public money while externalizing their risks and leaving the government with the cost of bailing them out. I speculate that a law of economics or politics is: If something requires universal access for everybody, then it will be effectively supported by the government, even if the mechanism is not obvious.
- Retra 10y agoThe 'free market' is basically an fragmented informal feudalist government.