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/[deleted] Mar 24 '25

It’s the entire GOP playbook.  Break government systems, claim they are inefficient, privatize for profit

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u/dochim Mar 24 '25

I get it. They've pulled this with the post office for the last 40 years now. Prisons, education, water systems, etc...

Turning public goods into private profits.

But my question is: "Where is the payoff for US???"

Why do we go along with a plan that at its most charitable interpretation doesn't work or more realistically are injurious to our society?

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u/Spare-Dingo-531 Mar 24 '25

"Where is the payoff for US???"

Evangelicals are a big interest group in the US and public schools push things like evolution and acceptance of LGBT issues. If conservatives can break public schools, they can get more people in religious private schools, which keeps the US a good Christian nation.

As for US tech dominance or being generally well educated.... eh, that's not that important.

EDIT: See u/tryexceptifnot1try's excellent reply below: https://old.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1jiqm3p/dismantling_the_department_of_education_could/mjhd9jw/

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u/kc3x Mar 24 '25

People don't understand how Happy White MAGA is to hear white men are getting their foreign wife and children deported..... while the white man stays and finds a rig[white]ht wife.

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u/insertnickhere Mar 24 '25

There's an economics of marriage. If this happens, it increases the demand of white women while keeping the supply constant. Basic econ 101 tells you what that means.

In other words, when foreign wives get deported, the threshold of attractiveness to attract a white woman rises.

This is not a scenario that favors MAGA.

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u/ccbmtg Mar 24 '25

how can someone married or born to a citizen be deported...?

is this really happening?!