Handre @Handre
USA 2026 The teachers’ union does not exist to educate your children. It exists to extract wages, block accountability, and eliminate competition, and it does this through the oldest trick in the statist playbook: capturing the regulatory apparatus that controls entry into the market. School vouchers threaten this arrangement directly. When a family in Milwaukee receives a $8,000 voucher and walks it across the street to a private school, the public school loses that funding. The union loses dues from teachers that the school no longer needs to employ. You can see exactly why the National Education Association (NEA), alongside the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has spent part of a combined $669.3 million since 2015 opposing school choice. The public school system is a state-enforced cartel. Funding flows in through compulsory taxation regardless of performance. Families cannot easily exit without paying twice, once in taxes and again in private tuition. This structure is intended. Monopolies do not emerge from free exchange; they require coercion to sustain themselves. Free market economists have long pointed out that competition disciplines producers by giving consumers exit options. Remove the exit option, and producers serve themselves. American public schools spend an average of $17,000 per pupil annually while countries like South Korea and Finland achieve superior results at lower costs in more competitive environments. The numbers do not flatter the monopoly. What the union calls “protecting public education” is protecting a captive market. Children in that market have no leverage, no exit, and no recourse when administrators fail them for the ninth consecutive year. The state compels your attendance, compels your funding, then tells you the resulting mediocrity is a public good worth defending.
budbromley 