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by Neal Boortz, Nealz Nuze
About 159 years ago someone named Karl Marx sat down to put his dream to words; his dream of a communist state that was to become a worker’s paradise. Somehow it didn’t work out all that well, but it certainly wasn’t for a lack of effort. Tens of millions of people died in Russia, China and elsewhere to show what an incredibly bad idea Marx had.
It’s ironic to me that the countries who suffered under the rule of Marx’s worker’s paradise have largely rejected so many of the tenants set forth in his Communist Manifesto, while the one country that held communism at bay for over 70 years and eventually destroyed it still embraces many of those ideas.
We’ve gone through this before, but once again (hey, there might be new Nuze readers!) let me tell you of just two of the essential elements of a communist society as set forth in Marx’s work:
1. A progressive graduated income tax.
2. Government education of the children.
Countries across Europe, especially former communist countries, are moving from a progressive income tax to either consumption taxes or a flat tax. Ever heard of the Irish Miracle? And across Europe more and more people are being allowed the freedom to choose where their children shall be educated. They choose the school, the tax money follows. And yes, more and more this is including private schools…
The answer is competition. We need school choice. If you want to continue with taxing the stuffing out of the people to pay for education, fine. Just let the money follow the children, as they do in much of Europe. Let the parent investigate the choices and then make a decision as to where their child will go to school, public or private. Then send the money chasing after the child. Only competition will drive these schools to strive for excellence. The security of government mandated attendance will only foster laziness and complacency.
Several weeks ago Hillary the Hideous loudly proclaimed that “privatization isn’t the answer to anything.” As I said at the time, this means that Hillary Rodham must think that government is the answer to everything – including education.
The teacher’s unions heard her loud and clear. Last week the American Federation of Teachers endorsed Hillary. No surprise. Look for the National Education Association to fall in line.
If we are to save our Republic we must create a generation or two of independent-thinking young adults who value freedom over security and who know the truth of what it was that made this country great. We will never get this from our government schools. Putting it bluntly, government schools and the teacher’s unions that control them, and our politicians, are killing this country.
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