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This is the double edge sword of moving away from voluntary transaction in the market and towards government-imposed funding. The government takes away your ab
by ty6853 1y ago
This is the double edge sword of moving away from voluntary transaction in the market and towards government-imposed funding. The government takes away your ability to choose what to fund, holds the purse, then smacks the purse at you filled with the weight of your own money.
- freeone3000 1y agoThe government, with laws as written, has more restrictions on when it can pull money than private parties, due to its legal obligation to be content-of-speech-neutral. We are discovering that United Stares law is meaningless.
- School-Cotton 1y agoLaw everywhere is meaningless unless “we have to follow the law” is a cultural norm. This is why norms are more fundamental and more important than laws.
- ty6853 1y agoYou are discovering this. It wasn't that long ago when the national guard took tuition money away from Kent State in the form of executing their students for free speech.
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- timewizard 1y agoFederal law is insanely complex. It's written by humans in an abstract legislative process so there's not even a guarantee that it won't conflict with _itself_. We have, several times, added laws to the register that were later determined to be in conflict with the Constitution itself. This is why courts exist. This is also why libertarians exist.
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- scottiebarnes 1y agoI'm not sure this is a "free market choices" problem. Some institutions like education should be funded by government, in part or in whole. The government threatening to take away that funding based on "taste" is more of a problem of authoritarianism.