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As the father of five children,
I am just as concerned as the writer of the Feb. 2 issue’s letter to the editor (“Brief answer for tax Credit issue”) which opposed tax credits for those parents paying private school tuition.
I do believe, however, that the solution to the plight of our nation’s public schools is firmly rooted in elementary economics. There is no question that the general welfare of all citizens is enhanced by an educated populace.
The issue of school choice, hbwever, centers on which method best delivers public dollars to meet that objective, parents or the educational bureaucracy. _ Business monopolies, we all know, short change consumers by eliminating competitive choices to provide the best products and services at the best price. Our antitrust laws even protect consumers from such abuses.
Yet, when it comes to our most precious national resource, our children, we employ a state run monopoly with staggering results, our students now rank beneath those of many industrialized countries.
As Nobel laureate
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