Comments on: Static Analysis and School Choice

By: Eric H

Eric H — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:54:59 +0000

The opposite case also happens: look at the claims the same people will make about some great new federal grant. For example, the Clinton Administration's Hope scholarship tax credits were available to every college student, and because such subsidies avoided the notice of college administrators everywhere, the tuitions remained the same and the students made out like bandits ... not! It probably took colleges about 5 nanoseconds to calculate what the tax credit meant to the median student (in terms of her or her parents' income tax rates), and therefore how much they could raise tuition and capture the entire subsidy themselves.

Politicians' response? Huh! ... wouldya lookat that? Tuition went up, so obviously the colleges and universities are out to screw the students. What we need is a new scholarship program!

Now apply that analysis to Medicare, Medicaid, Big Pharma, etc.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:26:12 +0000

“coyote’s post on private schools today just said everything you usually babble but, you know, in complete sentences” – This is from my wife.

You are making me look bad, and since learning to write well is hard, I do request that you make your post less intelligable just to even the playing field.

thanks in advance – Scott Wickham

http://tswe.blogspot.com/

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:24:20 +0000

Bob — I have to disagree with your comment. When buses started rolling in my city almost 40 years ago private school because of federal mandated desegregation orders sprang up over night — literally. Many of them started in churches. Today, the ones that survived (most of them) have found permanent homes and many have moved out from under the religous umbrella.

I believe private schools will once again spirng up if vouchers are passed in whatever location. The only question I have is will private schools who accept vouchers eventually come under the “thumb” of the federal government? No one can answer that. Too me that is the major obstacle to accepting vouchers. Once that item is cleared watch out…

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:08:44 +0000

Private schools are expensive and rare, and will remain so even if vouchers are commonplace. Why? Private schools are subject to architectural, planning, zoning, and land use restrictions that public schools are not, and they have to pay property tax on top of that. It’s especially bad in a state like California, where the obstruction of land development has been elevated to a high art. All that is assuming that your school project can get built, a difficult task if members of the local school board or teacher’s union also sit on local planning commissions and architectural review boards, a commonplace occurrence.