Government Control of Supermakets Like Schools : Failure

This scenario could be applied to any other business and the outcome would be the same - if it was run like the government, it would fail - Why do we accept this as just a matter of fact when it is in our power to stop the insanity and make intelligent decisions to vote in people that will change the way government operates?

This isn't rocket science - all we have to do is open our eyes and ears to what the politicians are saying and then chose the best ones that promise to brings us back to sound Constitutional values. If we sit back and let this all go to someone else's decision making agenda, we lose the most important aspect of life, the power to determine our own destiny. It can and will happen if we do nothing.

Actually, it's happening right now!


What If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools?
Source: Donald J. Boudreaux, "If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools," Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2011.

Teachers unions and their political allies argue that market forces cannot supply quality education. Yet Americans would find the current politicized and monopolistic approach ludicrous if applied to other vital goods or services, says Donald J. Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center.

Suppose that groceries were supplied in the same way as K-12 education.

Residents of each county would pay taxes on their properties. Nearly half of those tax revenues would then be spent by government officials to build and operate supermarkets. Each family would be assigned to a particular supermarket according to its home address.
And each family would get its weekly allotment of groceries -- "for free" -- from its neighborhood public supermarket. Of course, the quality of public supermarkets would play a major role in families' choices about where to live.

Being largely protected from consumer choice, almost all public supermarkets would be worse than private ones. In poor counties the quality of public supermarkets would be downright abysmal. Poor people -- entitled in principle to excellent supermarkets -- would in fact suffer unusually poor supermarket quality.

Responding to these failures, thoughtful souls would call for "supermarket choice" fueled by vouchers or tax credits. Those calls would be vigorously opposed by public supermarket administrators and workers, says Boudreaux.

In reality, of course, groceries and many other staples of daily life are distributed with extraordinary effectiveness by competitive markets responding to consumer choice. The same could be true of education.