Data Point – Notice which Price Changes Can Be Associated with Government Meddling in that Marketplace?

by Skip

Ding! Ding! Ding!  We have WINNAHS as they know the answer to the question: Which of these Marketplaces has Government inserting itself?

20 years of price changes in the US

Hospital Services? Think Medicare and Medicaid subsidies.

College Tuition?  Think Government “loan” subsidies.  And College textbooks are in that as well (but they’ve always been expensive).

Childcare & nursery school? Think Headstart (whose “benefits” disappear shortly after kids enter elementary school (itself subsidized).

And compare those to those things where government has a much smaller footprint relative to pricing (“Obama Phones” running contrary to that).

Anyone want to take my bet (remember, I am NOT a “betting guy”!) that if all of Government’s machinations relative to “higher education” costs went away, costs would plummet. After all, all those administrators may be Woke but they ain’t stupid when it comes to truckloads of bucks driving by…

(H/T” PostImage)

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  • Skip

    Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

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