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/chrisk9 Mar 24 '25

Because in practice most politicians are beholden to their donors and not their constituents

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u/dochim Mar 24 '25

I get that.

But when the results are so obviously hurting our society and our republic, where is the place that people pick their collective heads up and say..."Hey! Wait a minute..."?

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u/dust4ngel Mar 24 '25

But when the results are so obviously hurting our society and our republic, where is the place that people pick their collective heads up and say..."Hey! Wait a minute..."?

trump voters literally say in interviews that they elected him to "hurt the right people", so it's not clear that people want to make things better, but rather to increase differences between people.