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...Free market efficiency comparisons between vouchers and public schools are not valid. Since public schools must provide education for all students, they have special burdens (costs in free market terminology) that private schools do not bear. For the voucher market to be truly competitive, the government would have to pay subsidies to public schools for the special social burden they alone must bear, and provide lead time to make use of this subsidy...
With a No. 17 ranking, a perfect record in the month of April and the league trophy already behind glass, the men's tennis team swaggered into the scenic college town and took advantage of its pressure-free status in a 7-0 domination...
Reid's cartoon is harmful precisely because it draws attention away from one of the genuine causes of rape: society's glorification of both violence and consequence-free sex. When an overwhelming percentage of movies, songs, advertisements, books, etc. glorify both non-monogamous sexual relationships and violence, is it a surprise that rape is an everyday occurrence? Is it a surprise that rape happens at Harvard when a large percentage of campus organizations use sexual innuendo to promote their events...
Kennedy alleged that although opponents of environmental legislation defend the free market, "you show me pollution, I'll show you a subsidy [given to the polluting company...
...Free market efficiency comparisons between vouchers and public schools are not valid. Since public schools must provide education for all students, they have special burdens (costs in free market terminology) that private schools do not bear. For the voucher market to be truly competitive, the government would have to pay subsidies to public schools for the special social burden they alone must bear, and provide lead time to make use of this subsidy...