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Originally Posted by bahbahmickey
Remember that in the voucher system each parent is given a voucher for each child. The schools will have to work their tails off trying to convince each parent that their school is the best school for their child. It isn’t a race to the bottom to provide the worst/cheapest education. In fact the exact opposite would occur because each year the parent can switch to another that provides a better education.
Traditionally when most people think of rent they think of the price people pay to stay in a property that someone else owns. So the person who owns the property gets the money via the rent and renters get to stay in the property. Rent agreements are signed by both the renters and the owners and the only reason both parties sign the contract is because they found it to be the best value to them.
rent in economical terms (when moving out of the use of the word in housing settings) comes from Henry George (they guy who thought the most moral tax was that on land value, because the value of the land you own dependa on what other people do, not on what you, as the owner, do).
He defines it as "the part of the produce that accrues to the owners of land (or other natural capabilities) by virtue of ownership" and as "the share of wealth given to landowners because they have an exclusive right to the use of those natural capabilities".
(Second part is the main one in industrial or postindustrial societies).
It then rapidly became generalized by people after George as "excess profits over economic profits" from owning an asset, including any virtual financial claim.
A perpetual state annuity because you are a cleric or a veteran is a rent in that framework.
It's money given to you for whatever reason that you didn't work for basically (in late 19th century economic parlance).
It's different from the profits coming from an asset your "risk with", you gamble with, or you built.
It has a permanent connotation of privilege/underserved cash flow (so for veterans , they would start using rent only if they think it's excessive, or you didn't actually earned it).