Robert Plett wrote in a message to John Boone:
JB>  I started reading Fredrick Bastiat's "The Law" and
JB>read something about education that I thought you would
JB>enjoy.
JB>  Here it is page 31:
JB>        In this matter of education, the law has only
JB>        two alternatives: It can permit this transaction
JB>        of teaching-and-learning to operate freely and
JB>        without use of force or it can force human wills
JB>        in this matter by taking from some them enough to
JB>        pay the teachers who are appointed by government
JB>        to instruct others, without charge.  But in in
JB>        second case, the law commits legal plunder by
JB>        violeting the liberty and property.
JB>  I thought you might find this interesting.
 RP> What's sad is the inability of so many in our time, including 
 RP> too many who consider themselves conservative, to see the 
 RP> obvious, which is all Bastiat was expressing there. Those who 
 RP> can't or who refuse to see it that way, also cannot comprehend 
 RP> it as the evil it is.
Yeah,  that's something that's been puzzling to me for a long time...
I just can't figure it.
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