[Sangamon Kid]

Vouchers...another bad idea coming to a theatre near you. Like regular public education it's just another welfare scam...my dollars paying for your kid's education except now you get to choose the school.

Is somebody ever going to ask why it is that the state should have any say in how or where we educate our children? Since there is no constitutional basis for public education I can only conclude that those who send their kids to government schools are just like the proverbial welfare bum, hopelessly attached to the government teat.

[arielb]

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to...To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Now, it could mean that only patents and copyrights are allowed. But one could also argue that the Constitution is in favor of anything that promotes science and the useful arts and funding education is certainly one way of doing this.