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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (610802)	5/9/2011 10:03:04 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579807

Separation of church and state is not violated by letting people use government money to buy a service from a religious organization. People can use welfare checks at a church run thrift store. They can use GI Bill money for education at a religious university etc. The only real church state issues come when either 1 - The money can only be used for services from the religious organizations and secular companies or groups need not apply or 2 - The money is directly used to support religious worship or instruction, rather than just education in general from a religious organization. And as I understand it I haven't checked recently, there is no strong evidence that voucher parochial schools do a better job than secular private schools.... If they even do as good of job, and the do it for less money, that would be a benefit. If they do as good of job for the same money (or are anywhere on the same indifference curve as public schools on the trade off of cost and quality) then there still wouldn't be any reason not to allow them. Even if they where slightly worse they would still provide competition and push public schools to improve. Unless you can show that they are significantly worse allowing vouchers, and being open about who can receive the vouchers, provides a benefit.