Well, David, your proposal might help the birth rate, but I don't think that it
would help education much. The point of the New York Times article was that
without infrastructural support, money spent on education might not help the
most disadvantaged.
David Shemano wrote:
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> Here is a proposal for you. Let's convervatively assume that a public
> school education costs $10,000 a year. The government offers that for free
> for 12 years, so that is $120,000. Applying a conservative discount rate,
> let's give every child born $100,000 to be used how the parents see fit, and
> abolish all public education.
>
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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