I'm going to try my very best to stay polite, because this is quite possibly one of the most childish reponses I have ever replied to.
It feels like every time somebody points out a flaw in capitalism, capitalists go "that isn't REALLY happening! You're ignoring basic market principles that I learned in 10th grade."
Rather than say that, how about provide a source to your baseless statement? I have never seen it, and even if it wasn't a fundamentally flawed idea that is uncharacteristic of a free market system, it's illegal to price fix in the United States. How can I possibly trust someone that says price fixing is a flaw of capitalism and occurs in our education system even though the person that said that can't tell the difference between price signaling and price fixing?
It most certainly is not a flawed argument. A school isn't good by mere virtue of the fact that it's a private school.
It's a flawed argument because you stated "private schools aren't better because they're private schools." Again, rather than reply to me saying "no it's not, you're argument is flawed," it would be helpful if you would back up your statements with actual sources. According to the research you sent me and the statistics I provided you, there is a clear correlation that the majority of public schools fall behind in quality, but if that isn't enough.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs97/97983.pdf
Everything, from parent satisfaction to the school, absence of crime, and academic performance, private schools consistently out-preform public schools.
AHAHAHAHA. Seriously, have you ever read anything about history? Do you think these government programs just showed out of the blue? We tried it your way, and it didn't lead to Americans having the best education in the world, a lot of children ended up sweeping chimneys instead of going to school.
Um, "AHAHAHAHAHA", I do know my history. If you knew just the least bit of history, or at the bare minimum a Google search, you would know public schools have been around since the 19th century.
My idea of education reform isn't to privatize the whole K-12 education sector. You seem to have misinterpreted. Public schools have done their wonders in increasing education attendance rates, however if you bothered to read past the first sentence of my post, you would have realized I was critical of the anti-competition system that we currently have in place. By capping competition and not allowing students to choose which public schools they go to, there is a lack of innovation occurring in the classrooms. I'm quite fond of publicly funded charter schools.
This isn't how much they pay, this is how much they're supposed to pay. Believe it or not, rich people don't pay their taxes like us normal people do. Surprising right? Maybe the invisible hand of the free market should give 'em a spanking.
It really isn't that hard to provide a source. You do realize that is the Congressional Budget Office reporting how much they
received from tax dollars right? Not the IRS tax code. Closing the loop holes would only turn that 84% to a 90%. Doesn't change the fact that 40% of the people gave 90% of the governments money while another 40% only gave the government around 5% of the governments money. I'm not calling for tax increases on the poor, but to state that the evil rich people don't pay their fair share is quite simply false. It doesn't matter what any liberal outlet says, it's a fact that the rich do pay their fair share. You can't get any more reliable than the CBO.
Your opinion is not based on practical observation, it's based on what a self-proclaimed libertarian on the internet said about the evil government.
And maybe you should re-read my post, because I explicitly stated why tuition is going up.
It's quite simple really. Basic observation of the education sector shows that the federal government has continuously pumped more money in subsidized loans, with a correlation to rising tuition rates. The premise is simple: If you pump money into a market, inflation is bound to occur.
http://www.aei.org/publication/how-the-college-bubble-will-pop/
You never stated why college tuitions are rising. You pointed to a failed and illegal concept that is incompatible with free market economics and you later stated that I needed to get rid of the notion that the lack of capitalism is what is causing tuition rises… again, without providing a source.
Speaking as a middle class male (who's probably white), I've never had a problem affording health care or received a poorer education by mere virtue of the fact that my parents pay less in property taxes and therefore go to a school with less funding, and have no idea what life without those things is like, so they must be commodities. Also, my group has never faced any exploitation (slavery, racism, sexism, classism), leading them to play worse roles in society, so I see no reason why we should help those who've been hurt by literally hundreds of years of oppression. Also, making poor people work hard labor jobs without proper healthcare or a living wage so that they don't starve or end up in public housing isn't coercion, but making me pay for the old and sick to get better? You ****ing monsters!!!!!!!!!!
This post disgusts me.
As a Hispanic whose family has benefited tremendously from hard work, I can't help but think very poorly of you at this point. Because I value hard-work and success means I'm white? Probably one of the most demeaning and racist things I've heard in a while. Millions of Hispanics and Blacks have proven time and time again they are able to achieve on their own. My mom faced discrimination in her youth, does that mean she just quit trying and demanded that the government help her? No, like my mom, so have plenty of other minorities. I, like many others, don't want some demeaning government program or subside to help my way through success. Rather then cry about the past, minorities rather work hard and prove racial inequality of the past wrong.
Even if you excluded race, you still listed entitlements rather than rights. I try not appeal to emotional value and I'd rather view things from a pragmatic perspective. If I want to help someone via charity, I have every right to. If I don't want to, that's also my right to. However, I have no choice in whether I want to pay taxes that will go towards entitlements programs, or anything for that matter. Let me try not paying my taxes, let see how that turns out. That's the perfect example of government coercion.
I'd rather not strangle the future in debt that they had no say in, just to satisfy the entitlements of a select few.
It's really gross to see people who think like you do. So I'm not going to speak about this anymore. You've seriously been drowning yourself in a lack of empathy, and you really do need to realize that not everybody in this world is given a fair shot.
Well, that "gross thinking of mine" has been proven to work. Hard work is the key factor to success. If you don't believe so, and you believe government's prime duty is to give everyone an equal foot, I'll just provide you a family experience.
My grandparents of my mothers side were far from rich. Mexico didn't provide many economic opportunities. When they came to Houston in the early 60's, the lack of economic opportunities in Mexico was moot due to the racial barriers, the language barriers, and the lack of skills and education they had when they came to Houston. While my grandfather was struggling to start up his business in the United States, my grandmother was overloaded with having to raise three daughters, find some part-time work, and learning the language. However, she didn't point to the racial barriers and the language barriers as an excuse to be dependent on the government and not try at all. She took pride in never signing up for food stamps or other entitlement programs, it's mainly because she knew teaching her children a sense of dependency would only hinder their success. Despite the huge difficulty in learning the language, she started off working at a McDonalds, however with hard work, her work conditions started improving to the point where she had the credentials to start working at a decent paying convenience store. Despite her not being the most successful of people, she knew that demonstration of hard work was laying the foundation for future success in her family. My mom made 2 bachelors in science and is currently a full time nurse.
I could bring up my dads side of the family, but it would be a bit redundant. Just know, with hard work and having to study his entirety in Mexico, he was able to get a full scholarship to UT at Austin to fulfill his PHD in Civil Engineering. No connections whatsoever. Just hard work.
I'd suggest you not reply to this post if you're not going to form coherent arguments and you're just going to pull the race-card again (which backfired miserably).