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School Vouchers are Dead; Long Live SOTAs
Like many proponents of school vouchers, I first learned of them from Milton and Rose Friedman’s book Free to Choose. And as anyone who remembers reading FTC can tell you, the system envisioned by the Friedmans was, first and foremost, a universal system: every student got a voucher redeemable for tuition at the school of their choice. The ensuing competition amongst schools—even public schools—would force them all to deliver the quality customers want or risk insolvency. The whole idea was too replace the political imperatives which currently drive public school systems to spend enormous amounts of money attaining mediocrity with the market imperatives famous for producing the quality and efficiency customers demand in the normal marketplace.
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The road to wisdom? Well it's plain
and simple to express:
Err, and err,
and err again,
but less, and less, and less.
-Piet Hein
What is the Liberal Capitalist Party?
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Why a Liberal Capitalist Party?
Because frankly, we just can't stand it anymore. Honestly— can you?
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