Its impossible to say how well a "private school only" system will
turn out in the long run. It may do just fine on average but it may
work poorly during bad economic times when several schools in a city
suddenly go out of business for example. It is impossible to run
control experiments to determine which system is the best on average
over an extended period of time.
Besides, I was just pointing out that it is possible to privatize
education completely unlike things like a missile defence system that
cannot be privatized at all. Whether it is desirable is hard to tell
even though I would be inclined to say it is.

On Dec 3, 4:26 pm, "Matt W. Barrow"
wrote:
"kontiki" wrote in message

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Matt W. Barrow wrote:

Umm.." girish" said, "Low income families could then be given coupons
paid for by taxpayer money
that can be redeemed for education in private schools."

And you said, "Bingo! That is exactly how it should work."

Read his post in its entirety.

I have. It's not out of context all all. That one sentence is the key. His
"solution" relies on the schools putting pressure on the public schools.
It's foundation, in some places is called "vouchers". It gives lower income
people access to privat eschools, but is not a long-term solution to
anything else.

You are focusing on one sentence
which takes out its context. I don't like any government welfare
programs... or income taxes actually. But there ways to improve
the way things are done now with a goal toward phasing out and
completely eliminating the nanny state entirely at some future time.

That was the gist of his post... at least as I read it.

Any program that relies on taxpayer funded anything, at any phase, is not
going to do away with the nanny state. It is only going to stall and create
a self-perpetuating bureaucracy that will never disappear.