Ep. 136 You Hate Schoolteachers, and Education, and Knowledge

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Are Republicans at war with schoolteachers? Krugman thinks so: their state-level tax cuts have wrought havoc on education budgets, and it's teachers' salaries that have suffered.

We discuss the real truth of that question, plus the more general claim that education funding has suffered or that money or lack thereof accounts for how good the results are. This one's a smash.

Show notes for Ep. 136

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 136.
0:05.8	Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.
0:10.5	Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the arrows of Krugman.
0:16.4	Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.
0:20.5	It's time for Contra Krukman.
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0:42.2	Hey there, Contra Krugman listeners. If you're in the Chicago area, then I just want to let you know
0:47.3	that on Saturday, May 19th, 2018, Carlos Lara, David Stearns, and myself, we will be giving
0:53.9	a seminar on IBC for the general public.
0:57.5	For more details, go to IBC seminar.com. Hope to see you there.
1:03.5	Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. We're talking about education today because, as we learn from the April 23rd, 2018 column, Republicans are at war with school teachers.
1:16.5	The column is called, We Don't Need No Education. And Bob, with your permission, I'm going to start the episode with my usual dispassionate summary of what Krugman has to say.
1:26.9	You ready?
1:27.6	Yeah, but I mean, it does kind of stand a reason that we already know Republicans are against
1:30.7	science or against women. So just, you know. Put two and two together. Statistically, yeah.
1:35.8	Yeah, you're right. Well, this column, as with all the columns we discuss, is available on the show
1:42.0	notes page for the episode in which we discuss it. So in this
1:44.6	case, contracruigman.com slash 136. If for some reason you would like to follow along as I go through
1:51.7	it. So he uses an episode involving Matt Bevan, the governor of Kentucky, as a jumping off point.
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