“There are troubles and tradeoffs,” Gillespie said. “But … if somebody starts selling stuff you don’t like, you don’t hold a rally and you don’t try and get a bunch of people to vote to change it. You go to the next grocery store … or you build your own grocery store. It’s hard to do that with schools … with health care and … retirement.” Of course, as government makes more decisions for people and limits competition, it reduces our choices. It’s also given us horrible, unsustainable debt.
But, surprisingly, the Reason folks are optimistic.
“There are cases (of big government rollbacks),” Gillespie said. “New Zealand did this. Canada did this. The U.S. did this after World War II—dramatically ramped down the amount of spending, both in absolute terms and in relative terms as a percentage of economic activity. Political change happens.”
Via A New Day in Politics – Reason Magazine.
There are opportunities available to America, and even to small towns. There’s no better example of choice, even with a public institution, than a charter school for the Whitewater School District. If the charter school fulfills its charter, it will mean more to this city than a dozen public works projects.
Changing existing arrangements, toward a less-regulatory city, or less-regulatory schools, offers choice and competition that will improve life in a way that big-ticket projects simply haven’t.