| The notion that local governments should
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| | Also under this system, suppose the local
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| have almost total monopoly control over
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| | Food Board forces you and your family to
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| our children's education is not only
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| | buy from a particular store. The store
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| unjust and tyrannical, it is also absurd.
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| | clerks know you have to shop in their
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| Children need education, to be sure, but
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| | store, and that they can't be fired. As a
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| they also need food, clothing, and
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| | result, they soon become indifferent to
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| shelter. The same poor or irresponsible
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| | their customer's needs. The store
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| parents who public-school apologists
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| | managers can't be fired, so they manage
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| claim will not educate their children
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| | the stores badly. The stores can't go out
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| without compulsion, might not feed,
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| | of business because they are supported by
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| clothe, or shelter them either.
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| | taxes, so they give you poor service and
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| Yet, we do not see local governments
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| | rotten food. If you want to change
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| owning and operating supermarkets,
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| | stores, you have to ask permission from
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| department stores, or apartment houses.
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| | your local Food Board bureaucrat, who
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| Instead, government food stamp or rent
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| | will usually refuse your request. Also,
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| subsidy programs give temporary financial
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| | changing food stores doesn't accomplish
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| help to those parents who are too poor to
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| | much because they are all the same-all
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| provide for their children.
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| | owned and operated by the same government
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| When it comes to education, however,
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| | food monopoly.
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| instead of giving vouchers or other
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| | If this system sounds absurd to you, if
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| temporary loans or subsidies to poor
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| | you would scream bloody murder at having
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| families so they can pay for their
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| | to put up with such a system simply to
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| children's education, we've created a
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| | buy food, why do you put up with such a
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| government-owned-and-operated monstrosity
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| | system when it comes to your children's'
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| called public schools. As we noted
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| | education?
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| earlier, millions of parents now pay for
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| | Also, as we noted earlier, those we elect
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| private pre-schools, kindergartens, and
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| | to office are our agents, not our
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| colleges for their children in a vibrant,
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| | masters. They derive their powers from
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| competitive, education free-market.
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| | our consent. They are supposed to
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| Most parents who can't afford college
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| | represent our interests and follow our
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| tuition for their kids usually apply for
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| | instructions. Politicians, bureaucrats,
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| student loans either from a bank or a
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| | and school authorities therefore have as
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| government agency. Yet for 1st through
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| | much right to dictate how we educate our
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| 12th-grade education, suddenly government
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| | children as a real estate agent has to
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| must step in, treat all parents like
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| | dictate who we sell our house to and at
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| idiots or potential child abusers, and
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| | what price.
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| own and operate all the schools.
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| | The following passage from Isabel
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| To more fully understand the absurdity of
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| | Paterson's book, The God of the Machine,
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| this system, imagine for a moment that
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| | sums up the proper response to local
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| well-intentioned government authorities
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| | governments and school authorities who
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| want to make sure that every child has
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| | think they have the right to dictate how
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| enough to eat, that no child gets "left
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| | you educate your child:
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| behind" when it comes to food. To insure
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| | "The most vindictive resentment may be
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| this goal, local governments across the
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| | expected from the pedagogic profession
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| country take control of all supermarkets
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| | for any suggestion that they should be
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| and grocery stores in your town.
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| | dislodged from their dictatorial
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| Under this new system, bureaucrats now
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| | position; it will be expressed mainly in
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| own and operate all food stores, and
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| | epithets, such as reactionary, at the
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| store workers become tenured
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| | mildest."
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| civil-service employees who can't be
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| | Nevertheless, the question to put to any
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| fired. Your local government then passes
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| | teacher moved to such indignation, is: Do
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| a new "food tax" to pay for these stores
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| | you think nobody would willingly entrust
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| and employees' salaries. This tax is
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| | his children to you or pay you for
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| added to your current real-estate tax
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| | teaching them? Why do you have to extort
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| bill. If you don't pay this new tax,
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| | your fees and collect your pupils by
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| local government officials can and will
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| | compulsion?
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| foreclose on your home.
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