[TopQuark]

Before you use such strong words, perhaps you should understand the sentence you replied to. Your reply is entirely disconnected from it, so your choice of words makes it ridiculous.

[artios]

Markets provide better quality public goods at lower prices than govt's do. I disagreed with your statement and provided a book that deals with the specific instance of education which is the topic of the thread. I would also disagree with your pemise that education is a public good. However, be that as it may - my point still stands directly connected to your initial point.

I disagree with your contentions that education is a public good, that governments should provide public goods and that governments do it better - all three are incorrect.

Education is a private good best provided by a free market. All history indicates that is true as referenced by the book cited above.

Public goods should be provided by the public - first and primarily by free citizens freely acting together, secondarily as free citizens acting through their local governments, thirdly through the State and as a last resort - through the Fed. However, the authority of the fed is limited by the terms of the consitution - that is if we are going to have a govt that obeys laws. Self government means that the people should act themselves and govern themselves - and not always through the government.

Experience and history shows that markets provide high quality at low prices (always) and governments provide low quality and high prices (always.)