Free Market Best for Schools
Published in "The Oregonian", February 11, 2000.
Sen. Tony Corcoran's letter about Steve Buckstein and other (" Social arsonists' destroy village," Feb. 6) serves only to illuminate his moral and political bankruptcy. Because he does not have a valid answer to Buckstein's views, he resorts to personal attacks. Because he cannot support his own positions with logic, he resorts to empty rhetoric.
"Individual choice" is the result of personal freedom. "innovations" is the result of incentives provided by a free-market systems. The monopolies of the 19th century were the result of the use of governmental power to provide special privileges and prevent free entry into the market.
The solution to providing education and health services is the free market, not government. Corcoran and his philosophical ilk, not Buckstein, are the ones who want to return us to the past of socialization and class warfare.
It doesn't take a village to raise a child. It take a mother and father. It doesn't take government to run an economy. It takes free individuals operating to mutual advantage in a free market.