Friedman Still Kicks Pub Schools in Groin

Chicago U’s School of Business St. Milton Friedman helped underpin Reaganomics & once led the capitalism vs socialism debate but the deceased Noble Prize winner’s greatest legacy may be his school choice theory.

In his “Milton Friedman’s School Choice Revolution,” the WSJ’s William McGurn notes how “Biden may write him off, but his [school choice] idea is more popular than ever,” despite being dead for nearly two decades. The once novel idea: “Parents should decide where the public funds for educating their children go.” Already, McGurn writes, four states have adopted school choice for everyone “and it’s only April.” The most recent of course is Florida. “When signing the bill into law a week ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis rightly called it a ‘monumental day in Florida history.’ State education dollars will follow the student instead of simply going to the public schools.”

It's no coincidence Mr. Friedman became famous at U of Chicago before transferring his genius to Stanford on the West Coast. Having interviewed Mr. Friedman in several long interviews during that transition period, I now know he could not have helped being amazed at how putrid the Chicago Public School System remained, no matter how much taxpayer money the city’s Democratic Machine & its DC Swamp allies poured into it & its supposedly progressive teachers’ union. Mr. Friedman repeatedly told me as he did anyone else who would listen, “big government often does more harm than good”. And, my favorite Franklin-esque quote, besides “there’s no such thing as a free lunch,” is this missive: “If you put the [progressive] federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand …”

Davd Soul