Why is this man not out next president?

[TheRealMafoo]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Jackson50 said:

steven787 said:

1. I don't agree.  Public education is one of the great developments in human history. It is not "broken" despite the number of people who say it is, except the inbalance of where the best equipment and teachers go.

2. What would then happen when the market crashes and banks go out of business?  All your savings would be gone and you'd be relying on the government; whether they write a check to you or to your banks and brokers.

 

 

1. Education is an inherently private good. There really is no way to disagree with that. It is both rivalrous and excludable. I would say public funding of education is one of the greatest developments in human history. Subsidizing the producer is never the optimal choice. Subsidizing the consumer, however, allows for choice in schooling and will efficiently allocate educational resources. There are other areas where the government chooses to subsidize the consumer as opposed to the producer. One such instance is food stamps. Instead of creating government owned grocery stores, we subsidize the consumer through food stamps.

2. I diversify my investments. Whether it is bonds, a Roth IRA, a 401K and so on. To suggest, however, that someone should invest in social security because the market may fail-haha-is surprising. The (potential) wealth created by other investments should be more than enough to offset the costs of the low rate of returns on social security.

 

I think education is a basic human right, and I think your education should be safer than the shopping skills of your parents and how much money they have.  Not every parent can afford to pay more for a better education for their kids.  That means poor families put their kids in poor schools.  That would be very bad.

Or am I missing something here?  What if a parent doesn't want to buy an education for their stupid expensive baby?  Is the magical Libertarian government going to invade my privacy and tell me how to raise my kid or force me to put them in school?  I'll shoot the sons of bitches.  They can't tell me how to spend my money.

 

I live in an extremely small town (under a thousand people). Down the street is a building that once was a school. The 90 year old man who lives down from me went to that school. We were talking about politics, and education. He hates the education system. When he went to school, the town ran it. That little school had 30 grand in the bank, and gave a VERY good education. (this was the 40's). When the federal government took over, the school was closed because it was deemed to expensive to run (even though the community ran it on a lot less money then they were paying the feds to run schools). All the students were then bussed into a larger town 30 minutes away (about 10,000), and given far worse education.

How is this better?

I am not against the asking the people to pay for education. I am just against the government running anything the Constitution does not require them to run (Military for example).

This state collects about 20K per student for education. If you were to drop that to 15K, give every parent that money in a voucher (meaning it's only worth something to an accredited school), and let the parent pick where there child gets there education, education quality would sky rocket. The reason I would drop the price by 25%, is so after the child turns 18, they get it for 5 more years to give that voucher to a collage of there choice.

This would make for a far better educated country, and cost a lot less as a lot of people will choose not to go to college. If this does raise college rate, that's a good thing as well. More money will be made, and thus more taxed will be collected.