Privatize education 3 of 3

I suppose I should clarify one thing regarding the fiscal nature of my proposal. When I say my plan would lower taxes, what I really mean is that the taxes will stay the same and not increase like the current system regularly does. This is one area where we do need to pull together as a community so no child is left without education, but my plan calls for reform that would eliminate a lot of wastes and thus save a lot of money. After everything is said and done the amount we currently tax should have a large surplus. The real question is what to do with the surplus money. Do we give it back to the tax payers, do we raise the amount given per voucher, do we hire more representatives for the newly formed better education bureau? I propose that we take the surplus, and use half of it to cut costs that require money now to save in the future. Examples of these would be buying more expensive light bulbs that save money in power later for the school buildings, or converting the school busses to natural gas which costs now, but saves in the long run. The other half of the money would be invested in low risk bonds. The purpose in doing this is so that when inflation hits, as it always does, the amount taxed increases for the same funding. With the interest gained from careful investments we can cover the losses from not raising taxes in the future. I guess you could say this would be a mix between neutral and contractionary fiscal policy for education taxing. This is why I say it will lower taxes, is because over the years it will not increase. Even without the regular tax increases I believe the surplus will continue to grow over time because of the 50% each year that goes to long term cost efficiency. On a different topic now, I would like to address one concern and that is the lack of regulation can open the doors for abuse. For example, when the government did a somewhat similar action in privatizing homes for the disabled elderly they later found cases where some of the old that had no family were euthanized by the workers. This is an understandable concern, will my plan open the door for abuse? I truly believe this plan does quite the opposite, because the abuse is already there. It’s called unions and tenure. Teachers can abuse kids, and even be caught red handed by other faculty members, but if they have union and tenure to back them up, the school administration can’t always do anything about it. You’re probably thinking that that last sentence is bologna, but I know it’s true because this happened to me. My principal saw the scrape marks on my arms, and the school nurse testified that she saw my teacher do it to me, but the principal told us she could do nothing. The unions and tenures losing their power is what will stop abuse, and my plan threatens their very survival.