[MD] Value and the Individual

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo previously]
> The same way it does with everything else. The poor get Motel 6's. 
> The rich get Hilton Executive Suites. The poor drive old jallopies, 
> the use drive Lexus.
> 
> [Platt]
> Education is not a material product.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Can you name me any one other thing the free market provides that 
> gives the same quality to the poor as to the rich?

The internet.


> [Platt]
> To schools, vouchers would be the same as money from taxes. Schools 
> would have no motive to deny entry to anyone.
> 
> [Arlo]
> How much was the tuition at your daughter's school? Would a "voucher" 
> have covered the entire amount? Because I've looked, and the average 
> tuition and private schools is much, much more than the "tax credit" 
> we could get by making vouchers equal to the amount paid in taxes.

If a voucher wasn't enough for the school a parent wanted to send a child,
it would be an incentive for the parent to 1) get retrained 2) get a better
job, and/or 3) work harder. 

> [Arlo previously]
> I get it. The problem is particular cultural elements in America. 
> Since law forbids the public schools from excluding people based on 
> their color, we make all the schools private and then allow them to 
> discriminate! Its not so much the "private" you want, is it, as the 
> "get rid of the black element"!
> 
> [Platt]
> You said it, I didn't
> 
> [Arlo]
> Because you lack the balls to say what you really mean.

Oh, oh. Now comes the personal attack. Time to end this conservation. 






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