But What Will It Do to Demand for New Automobiles???

by Don Boudreaux on February 1, 2010

in Not from the Onion

From the files of Absurd Research.  Monty Python couldn’t make up stuff this ridiculously funny.

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  • pergev
    Should we hold our collective breath while awaiting the report that must surely follow from the statist establishment encouraging the use of homeschooling?
  • The left and statists in general despise school choice, they will come up with any scheme they can to get rid of it.
  • The environmental cost of supporting government: workers have to drive about two days a week just to support government.
  • OnlyShawn
    cost/benefit research. there ya go. and THAT is what is used to justify regulatory action.
  • mark
    I did not go to grad school. However, I remember thinking that the research being undertaken by some of the grad students of my major was fantastically stupid. Not all of it was so, just a small percentage of it.
  • vidyohs
    What is scary is knowing this wasn't written as satire.

    I am surprised they didn't laud Roe Vs Wade as the greatest action taken to lessen the automobile pollution caused by moms taking kiddies to school.

    Roe Vs Wade one of the earlier positive environmental acts!

    Yee Haw, God you gotta love 'em!
  • Tom Kelly
    School choice is the best thing that could ever happen to the environment. The driving force behind suburban sprawl is flight from poor city schools. With full school choice people would no longer have to choose schools by relocating and the center cities would again become attractive to families.
  • Mike M.
    And to take it one step further, by eliminating the role of government in education all together! The idea that your address determines who teaches your children is absolutely absurd.

    Think about all the unnecessary angst caused by public education ... Separate but equal, anyone?
  • Tom Kelly
    This is one place where I can support minimal government intervention. There are significant positive externalities to having a somewhat educated populace. A voucher system for education seems reasonable to me.
  • Yes there are positive externalities to an educated population, which is exactly why the government should have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

    After all, would you send your kids to mafia schools? Why send your kids to schools maintained by an even more depraved and vicious gang?
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