I have no interest whatsoever in health policy, but I am interested in education. Paul Krugman’s column yesterday mocked one strand of conservative (libertarian actually) education thinking.
So let’s end this un-American system and make education what it should be — a matter of individual responsibility and private enterprise. Oh, and we shouldn’t have any government mandates that force children to get educated, either. As a Republican presidential candidate might say, the future of America’s education system lies in free-market solutions, not socialist models.
Isn’t this a transparently ridiculous argument he suggested, before going on to say, well, that’s what we currently have in health care.
But of course Krugman’s ridiculous education policy is exactly what I would like to see. It’s progress, I suppose, that these arguments are aired on the New York Times’ editorial page, even if only to be mocked.
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