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To: koan who wrote (26692)	9/6/2012 5:15:30 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

1. Human activity, particularly American human activity is having a damaging effect on the env-eye-rowne-ment and so forth; 2. Government activity is (American) human activity; 3. Therefore, for the sake of the planet, conservatives are right and the government should be reduced. Where'm I goin' wrong? So odd that if you and I decide to consume less, that's a move to "save the planet" but if the government is supposed to consume less, that somehow becomes "a winner-take-all society." ht Morgan Freeberg

To: koan who wrote (26692)	9/6/2012 5:24:53 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

But its a better idea to rely more on the market and competition for something as important as education (possibly with subsidies from the government to try to grab the positive externality of education), rather then rely on a socialist system, esp. one that in so many places has cost so much while failing so badly.

To: koan who wrote (26692)	9/8/2012 4:56:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Public School Spending. There’s a Chart for That! Posted by Andrew J. Coulson What better time than back-to-school season to revisit the trends in U.S. student achievement and public school spending? With that thought in mind, I present a newly updated version of my chart showing the total amount spent over the course of a single student’s k-12 career, along with student achievement trends for 17-year-olds. The achievement data come from the Department of Education’s own National Assessment of Educational Progress “Long Term Trends” series, which regularly tests nationally representative samples of U.S. students, drawing from the same pool of questions in use since the tests were first administered around 1970. These are the best data we have on what our kids know by the end of high school and how much it has cost to get them there. In the past, some readers have wondered if the use of two separate scales ($ on the left and % on the right) might skew the way we perceive these numbers, making the public school productivity collapse look worse than it really is. To allay that concern, I present an alternate version of the chart that places all the data on the same percentage scale. Alas, the second picture is no less bleak than the first. If music players had suffered the same cost/performance trends we’d all still be lugging around cassette boom boxes, but they’d now cost almost $1,800…. Aren’t you glad we didn’t give tax-funded state monopolies to 19th century Victrola manufacturers? Andrew J. Coulson • September 6, 2012 @ 10:08 am cato-at-liberty.org