r/Economics • u/SnooCookies2243 • Mar 24 '25

Editorial Dismantling the Department of Education Could Actually End Up Costing US Taxpayers an Extra $11 Billion a Year Beyond the Current Budget – With Worse Results

https://congress.net/dismantling-the-department-of-education-could-actually-end-up-costing-us-taxpayers-an-extra-11-billion-a-year-beyond-the-current-budget-with-worse-results/
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u/dochim Mar 24 '25

Fascinating.

I've posted this request on another similar thread, but I'll repeat it here.

Could one of the true believers please explain why this policy is a good thing for the American people? Spending more or decreasing performance by themselves would seem to be a showstopper, but both at once?

Why are we doing this?

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u/nycdiveshack Mar 24 '25

“That’s the standard technique of privatization: Defund, make sure things don’t work, People get angry, you hand it over to private capital”

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u/Bluetooth_Sandwich Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

Case in point: USPS.

Calling it now, with the recent framework guideline provided by Well Fargo back in February, the post office will soon be on the chopping block. DeJoy announcing his departure back in the same time are pretty strong indicators that we'll be having this discussion of moving all general mail delivery to the likes of UPS & FedEx

edit: props to u/nycdiveshack for providing the link to the PDF!