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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: JBTFD who wrote (164604)11/15/2008 2:13:50 PM
From: ChanceIsRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
>>>Vouchers allows people to opt out of doing their fair share to support public education.<<<

Oh please.

Public schools are in general funded through real estate taxes. We all pay that whether renter or owner. We all pay that whether we have children not. We all pay it if we have children in school or after they have left school and gone off into independent adult life. Those who have their children in private schools pay taxes to public schools - paying twice for schooling.

A voucher gives somewhere choice of where to funnel his money and children while the children are in school. It removes the decision of where to direct financial resources within education from the school to the parent.

For the parent it is a zero sum game. He/she can't spend the voucher elsewhere. The advantage is that the parent makes the financial choice, not the schools.
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