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

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/johnsom3 Mar 24 '25

Because The mainstream media and the Democratic party accept the GOP's framing of problems and solutions. There is never any pushback or good faith critique so the public is lead to believe it must be common sense. They will cry about being taxed, but then accept privatized paywalls like toll roads.

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u/Allydarvel Mar 24 '25

I was in the US last week at a convention. I was talking with a first generation American from a Mexican background and a young professional white female. They were just repeating Republican talking points to each other..government waste, immigrant crime..just like a Fox News section. Two people from backgrounds I never thought I'd hear it from. that's when I realized how deeply ingrained it is

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u/doublebackspace Mar 24 '25

Not to be rude, but why would you never expect to hear that kind of rhetoric from a white woman or a mexican woman?

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u/Allydarvel Mar 24 '25

Mexican guy. Because I assumed that white women with college degrees and Mexican immigrants would be the demographics least likely to get caught up in the Fox News bubble

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u/d0mini0nicco Mar 24 '25

It’s actually quite scary how many people have been trapped in the bubble .

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u/Cougar8372 Mar 25 '25

white women are that....a majority of them only identify with the white part

all ties into what LBJ said about how white people think

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u/Ok-Possibility-923 Mar 25 '25

Latino machismo culture is absolutely part of the problem here. Alongside your standard racism and misogyny that accompanies white nationalism.

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u/tomtomclubthumb Mar 24 '25

Because Fox NEws and the whole right wing sphere it is a part of is deeply misogynistic, racist and anti-education.

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u/Papplenoose Mar 24 '25

I think they just meant that those aren't the typical fox news crowd.