[MD] Value and the Individual

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo]
> Do we force private schools to accept vouchers? What if they don't 
> want to? Do we use the guns of government to make sure your private 
> school accepts vouchers?
> 
> [Platt]
> Guess you don't understand the free market. Why am I not surprised?
> 
> [Arlo]
> So we don't force private schools to accept vouchers?
> 
> Let's think ahead. We've abolished the public school system (being 
> the Marxist evil it was). We abolished school taxes.

Whoa. Who said we abolished taxes?

> Now what? What happens to families who can't afford to send their 
> kids to private schools? To the factories? To second rate "Motel 6" 
> schools in lieu of the Hilton Schools for the capistocracy?
> 
> How would the "free market" ensure the same quality of education for 
> all? The same way it ensures that my lodging in Atlantic City is of 
> the same quality as Donald Trump's? Or does the free market say that 
> equity in educational quality is a Marxist evil, and the rich and 
> wealthy should naturally receive better quality educations?
> 
> You say "we are not class conscious", but yet all I see here is an 
> absolute redistricting of education into class-specific schools.

What parent do you know who is going to deliberately send his child to a rotten
school? What parent do you know who isn't going to try to send his child to the 
best school available? Like I said, I don't think you understand the incentives
and motivations of the free market. All you seem to understand is the Marxist
conception of equality which lowers everything to the lowest common denominator. 






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