re: GATOR scholarship bill successfully gets through LA subcommittee

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I know you philosophically are very much a libertarian who opposes the current k-12 system, so what is your preferred way to institute school choice?

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Honestly, if you want the government to pay for something, then you submit to the government's rules.

As a taxpayer, I don't get a direct choice in how my tax dollars are spent on roads, or military, or economic development, or government-paid health care, or parks and recreation, or police/fire protection, etc. The only "choice" I have is whether to vote for the tax (if it's even a tax I can vote for) or whether to vote for the politicians who ultimately made the decisions.

I'm not necessairly sure why education should be any different.

So, I think we are left with two options.

1) The current system
2) A complete and total dismantling of public education. No more public schools, no more tax dollars (federal, state, and local) going to public schools.

From a PURE libertarian view... option 2 is appealing. But I'm also realistic enough to know that if there was no public schools, the majorty of parents could not afford whatever all-private school system took the place of it... even if no public schools resulted in large tax cuts.

I'm more of a realist than a libertarian. Perhaps by necessity. But I think the financial costs of a society with a lot less education are FAR greater than the costs to society of public school education.

The real answer is... how do we make public schools better for all students? The answer isn't more unions and more spending...