On Jul 19, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Plus there's the perceived 'problem' of giving a handout to those
> who can already afford preschool. Is it really that hard to
> administer a needs test for things like this?
It's a law of politics that targeted, means-tested programs suck. The only way to have good public programs with broad support is to have them be universal. E.g., Social Security, or Scandinavian social democracy.
Doug