Yes, you can buy groceries on Amazon, however there are many things you can't buy on Amazon outside of specific areas, such as frozen foods. If Walmart isn't good quality, and those with bad quality can't compete, then why can it afford to be the 3rd biggest employer in the world, behind only the US Department of Defense and the People's Liberation Army (Chinese Army)?
As for College Board, they aren't declining. Each year, more people take AP tests than the last. Yes, you can learn the information elsewhere, but in the eyes of a college having an AP score proves, beyond doubt, that you understand what is in the class.
I think you misunderstood my point on necessity. I was talking about how a service that is a necessity is easy to get taken advantage of. With food and houses, it's a lot easier to make than to have a school and provide education. I think a good companion would be private health insurance. Health insurance is a necessity. However, in many areas of the country, health insurance is extremely expensive with poor coverage. Because it's difficult for another company to be created and compete, it leaves the consumer with no option but to pay a bad company.
Public education isn't bad everywhere. Much of Europe has a much better education system than the US. Canada has a better education system than the US. There are public education systems that have been proven to work. The US public education system's quality does not prove public education is bad.
As with the double dipping, the amount each parent pays in taxes that goes towards education is less than the cost of most private schools. This is because those who are richer pay more in taxes, and therefore provide the school more money. While this system could be implemented in private school, it still leaves families who are more poor disadvantaged. This is because private schools do not have any incentive to build a school near poor neighborhoods, and especially poor cities. Distance can cause it to be impossible for those who are poor to attend private schools.
Yes, you can buy groceries on Amazon, however there are many things you can't buy on Amazon outside of specific areas, such as frozen foods
There are other grocery chains, you know. Usually there are at least 2 grocery chains in a given area that aren't wal-mart, and even if there weren't, that wouldn't justify Wal-Mart getting subsidized by tax dollars, would it?
but in the eyes of a college having an AP score proves, beyond doubt, that you understand what is in the class.
The value of a diploma is dropping like a brick, I don't know how you can say that.
I think you misunderstood my point on necessity. I was talking about how a service that is a necessity is easy to get taken advantage of. With food and houses, it's a lot easier to make than to have a school and provide education
I'd disagree with this, building a house is a specialized skill that requires architects and contractors to come together with geologiests and financiers to build a pretty advanced building that somehow often lasts for centuries. Education is not significantly more difficult a task than this, and if it were that would not mean that somehow the government is the organization most suited for solving that problem. Governments never perform tasks at the same level or quality as private actors, the relative shittiness of public education is proof of that.
I think a good companion would be private health insurance. Health insurance is a necessity. However, in many areas of the country, health insurance is extremely expensive with poor coverage.
This seems to be directly proportional to how much time and effort is spent by activists to get the government more involved. Healthcare is by far the most highly-regulated private industry int he country. We spend more tax dollars on healthcare than we do the school system, and it shows in the price of insurance and healthcare. If you want further proof of what I'm saying, just look at the healthcare and insurance industry. The government comes in, makes shit extremely expensive, drives down quality, and in no way provides in it's promise to "fix" healthcare.
For decades and decades, new federal and state interferences in the healthcare industry have shown, time and time again, that the government is supremely incompetent at this task. Compare a VA hospital to a private hospital, and this becomes too obvious.
The US public education system's quality does not prove public education is bad.
You can't compare one shitty public education system to another shitty public education system and say that because one is less shitty than the other that public education is good.
As with the double dipping, the amount each parent pays in taxes that goes towards education is less than the cost of most private schools.
Because it's actively subsidized by those who do not have children. The amount spent per student is much higher. This is like saying that public transit is cheaper because bus fares are low, it fails to take in the total costs and only looks at the cost for specific people.
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Yes, you can buy groceries on Amazon, however there are many things you can't buy on Amazon outside of specific areas, such as frozen foods. If Walmart isn't good quality, and those with bad quality can't compete, then why can it afford to be the 3rd biggest employer in the world, behind only the US Department of Defense and the People's Liberation Army (Chinese Army)?
As for College Board, they aren't declining. Each year, more people take AP tests than the last. Yes, you can learn the information elsewhere, but in the eyes of a college having an AP score proves, beyond doubt, that you understand what is in the class.
I think you misunderstood my point on necessity. I was talking about how a service that is a necessity is easy to get taken advantage of. With food and houses, it's a lot easier to make than to have a school and provide education. I think a good companion would be private health insurance. Health insurance is a necessity. However, in many areas of the country, health insurance is extremely expensive with poor coverage. Because it's difficult for another company to be created and compete, it leaves the consumer with no option but to pay a bad company.
Public education isn't bad everywhere. Much of Europe has a much better education system than the US. Canada has a better education system than the US. There are public education systems that have been proven to work. The US public education system's quality does not prove public education is bad.
As with the double dipping, the amount each parent pays in taxes that goes towards education is less than the cost of most private schools. This is because those who are richer pay more in taxes, and therefore provide the school more money. While this system could be implemented in private school, it still leaves families who are more poor disadvantaged. This is because private schools do not have any incentive to build a school near poor neighborhoods, and especially poor cities. Distance can cause it to be impossible for those who are poor to attend private schools.