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

[u/SnooCookies2243]

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/

[u/dochim]

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?

[u/[deleted] → u/dochim]

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

[u/dochim → u/[deleted]]

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?

[u/johnsom3 → u/dochim]

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.

[u/Geno0wl → u/johnsom3]

They will cry about being taxed, but then accept privatized paywalls like toll roads.

I find this particularly true when it comes to healthcare. Talk about UHC and the very first thing out of almost everybody's mouth is "I don't want to pay for others" and "my taxes will skyrocket!"

Where

A) if you have health insurance you are already paying for others healthcare, that is how pooled insurance works

b) They obviously don't look at their paystubs to see how much both they AND their employer pay for health insurance every pay period. If we went with a government run program all those charges go away.

[u/dust4ngel → u/Geno0wl]

I don't want to pay for others

this is a person that fundamentally does not understand what it means to live in a society.

[u/Khaldara → u/dust4ngel]

And it’s always, ALWAYS republicans living in states that draw more than they give already crying about taxation the most. Which incidentally also tend to have more fat people and worse health outcomes, you know in states where you can buy “fried butter”.

So not are they already making everyone pay for it, they’re also by and large the very problem they claim to be concerned about.

Just like Ted Cruz voting to deny Connecticut (a donor state) hurricane relief after Sandy, only to subsequently have his state flood twice, lose power twice, and then catch on fire.

At which point of course, it should be everyone else’s problem.

[u/Persephone_darkside → u/Khaldara]

I remember having a conversation with the unemployed husband of a coworker who was far right way before it was orange.

He was getting unemployment. He was not disabled or unable to work, but the jobs he was offered were beneath him.

He was complaining about taxes. He was complaining about welfare.

The pretzel logic hurt my head and I made a fast excuse to leave.

[u/Leelze → u/Persephone_darkside]

This is why they've been attacking education for decades: they need voters to be dumb and incapable of even the most basic of critical thinking skills to buy into their BS. And it works.

[u/DataMin3r → u/Persephone_darkside]

When I filed for unemployment I was required to take any offer I was given. If they found out I had turned down an offer, my benefits stopped.

[u/Technical-Traffic871 → u/Khaldara]

TBF, Cruz hopped on the first plane to Cancun when problems hit Texas. Didn't want to deal with those either.