On the Right, Public Healthcare for Children is a Socialist Plot

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Posted on August 27, 2007, Printed on August 28, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/60817/

Suppose, for a moment, that the Heritage Foundation were to put out a press release attacking the liberal view that even children whose parents could afford to send them to private school should be entitled to free government-run education.

They'd have a point: 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.