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From his column today:

...many American families with middle-class incomes do send their kids to school at public expense, so taxpayers without school-age children subsidize families that do. And the effect is to displace the private sector: if public schools weren?t available, many families would pay for private schools instead.

So let?s end this un-American system and make education what it should be ? a matter of individual responsibility and private enterprise. Oh, and we shouldn?t have any government mandates that force children to get educated, either. As a Republican presidential candidate might say, the future of America?s education system lies in free-market solutions, not socialist models.

Turns out it's sarcasm. To Krugman, the self-evident wrongness of school choice is an "analogy" to support the idea of socialized medicine. Problem is, where do you stop? Why not apply the "analogy" to food production, manufacturing, elections -- is there nothing in Krugman's mind that could not be improved by handing it over to government control and coercion? Thanks to reader Chris Janutol for the link.

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