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If we don't let the public funds into our private schools

my money! NOT public funds. that's the crucial element...so, i demand accountability, ok, the gov. has no business here. theyre out of the loop.

i do grant your point that govt will seek to regulate, co-opt, interfere, and propagandize. theyre becoming quite efficient indeed. BUT with vouchers, what USED TO BE public money is now the original owner's (of that money). it is NOT public money, therefore not subject to the same control. (somethin smells fishy when you keep opposing vouchers based on an erroneous premise)

BUT with vouchers, what USED TO BE public money is now the original owner's (of that money).

Not true.

Unless they earned one Hell of a lotta money, the voucher recipient did NOT pay taxes equal to the voucher amount.

As a matter of fact, only one of three taxpayers actually has children in school (K-12.) The other 2/3rds subsidize that education.

A voucher is a GREAT BIG CHECK written by the State to a parent so that parent can choose the school his children attend.

But it is NOT the money of the voucher recipient, NOR is it money that the recipient "earned."

Having said that, I still prefer the voucher system.

No fish here. I just paid $5 to park at a public beach for my buddy's wedding. Oh, yeah, that's my beach. I'm the public. My single buddy has no children. He pays property taxes too. Can he have a voucher to use that money to perhaps get his PH FReepin D? The point is, you don't get taxed differently than the guy that has no kids in school. We all pay taxes so that the kids in this country get a basic education. Here's the fish that I think you smell; you are all for the tax payers giving you a voucher to put your child in a superior school system, instead of you putting the bucks together to manage it yourself, which would, in all fairness, be available to everybody now, thus making these "private schools" the primary souce of education for a much larger portion of our society and then you expect the atheists, agnostics, homosexuals, new age believers, devil worshippers, selfish don't care about no one elsers, and their simpathizers, who have now put their kids in your Catholic or other Christian school to leave well enough alone. That rotting fish is your own selfish desire for a first class ticket with a coach budget. You need to find a way to put together the kind of money it takes to put your kids through the private school without ever giving the general public, or special interest groups, i.e. the government say in your curriculum. This is still somewhat of a free country, opportunity knocks.