When the government offers a *free* service, the private version *must* look gold-plated to have any customers; this tragically sustains the illusion that most people couldn't afford it without the government.https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan/status/1138767953179095040 …
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The test of this logic? Look at the prices in countries with no government-gratis version of the service. The theory predicts the base paid version there will be cheap and of acceptable quality.
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It sounds like it would also predict significantly greater diversity in product space. I often think about what kinds of schools might exist at the real price point of public K-12https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1137834966799142917 …
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Taxpayers now spend ~$13k/year per K-12 public school student — into a system we're consistently told is "underfunded." Yet if parents could choose between public schooling or $13k per kid toward the school of their choice, the entire institution would disappear. Bonkers.
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