RE: Paying for Schools (was: SOCIETY: Re: The privatization of public security)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 00:35:20 MDT


Russell wrote

> So, is there a way to redistribute money to the poorer people
> in the community to pay for a good education for their kids,
> while keeping the advantages of competition, decentralisation,..?

And Damien X wrote back
  
> So, is there a way to redistribute money to the poorer people
> in the community to pay for good *food* for their kids, while
> keeping the advantages of competition, decentralisation, ..?
> "Food stamps good."
> "School vouchers bad."
>
> I never understood why.

The answer is very easy: in the case of *food*, we come from
a free-market solution that already works extremely well, so
naturally it's "good" to weaken it with food stamps. Likewise,
we come from a socialist solution to education, which works
very poorly, of course, and so to weaken it by moving towards
freedom is "bad".

Lee



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