Don’t Just Wound It: Kill It

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Don’t Just Wound It: Kill It

Aaron D. Wolf - FEBRUARY 02, 2017

 

The Department of Education must be destroyed.

 

This holdover from the Carter administration costs us $80 billion per year, for which we have received in return a centralized educational bureaucracy beholden to wildly leftist teachers’ unions and the proliferation of ignorance. Cut this monstrous budget in half, and federal spending on education is still not worth the cost. Why? Because the problem with having a Department of Education transcends questions of how tax dollars ought to be spent.

 

Set aside the Current Occupant’s temptation to “incentivize” behavior by withholding federal funds for state budgets, unless Common Core or No Child Left Behind or the Paleo conservative Plan for America be implemented. Forget for a moment about the insidious ways Title IX has been used to punish states for acts of “discrimination” that amount to the upholding of natural law, as was the case in North Carolina and the so-called Bathroom Bill. The Emerald City should not have any say in the education of children, period.

 

Power corrupts, of course, which is why conservative criticisms of leftist power structures tend to fall by the wayside whenever conservatives gain power. We are tempted to “use the power for good” whenever we hold it. We tend to ignore the Jason Voorhees Principle.