I don't have a problem with taxpayer funding for education per se, at least in cases of significant poverty.
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I find subsidizing the very poor less objectionable than subsidizing everyone including the rich and the middle class. Why should a retired cop or nurse subsidize a doctor or lawyer’s lifestyle by paying for their kid’s schooling? Why should your grandmother subsidize an investment banker’s lifestyle?
Socializing the education industry makes no more sense than socializing the medical industry. Socialized schooling makes no more sense than socializing housing, and providing every family with a house. All these things are just redistributing income.
For some reason, people who are against socialism in every other area are all for it in schooling. Even less understandable, is that so many people don’t see that vouchers and tax credits are just masks for socialism.
Hopefully, that will change.
"Even less understandable, is that so many people don’t see that vouchers and tax credits are just masks for socialism."
I see them as exactly the reverse -- it's not government money and thus not "socialistic," but a chance to get our *own* money back to use for education as *we* see fit.
Of course, I would rather the government never even took the money from us in the first place!
Just another point of view --