Seriously, stop what you’re doing and watch this clip from the Daily Show. It talks about how everyone loves to call people Hitler to end an argument and its hilarious, yet pertinent.

But seriously, Vouchers are wrong. They take money out of the public school system and place it into the private school system, where those private schools don’t have to follow standards or offer equal opportunity, heck I could put my kid in a religious private school and all he/she would read is the bible 8 hours a day… Not something I particularly want sanctioned by my government, but then again i’m a communist so what’s the point… Boo…

You mean support the greater good as in the ant-like societies on Lenin and Stalin, or Chairman Mao, or ever better yet, the egotistical and meglomaniacal dwarf that runs North Korea?

Besides, whose kids are they, the government’s?

I’ll bet that you haven’t read anything that Milton Friedman and Abigail Thernstrom wrote have you????

So should I get my money back if I don’t have children? Should I get my money back for roads I don’t drive on? The whole thing about the money belonging to the taxpayer is the fundamental disconnect in this whole argument. If you believe that it’s all your money and it should be a one for one, I get out what I put in thing, then it does make sense to have school vouchers. However, if you think that taxes should go to support the greater good, and that an educated society is important and is something that everybody should be willing to support, then it only makes sense that public tax dollars go to support public school only.

Many parents want to have religious and moral influences for their kids but can’t afford it because they can’t pay twice for their kid’s education. Vouchers would certainly help the affluent because they are citizens too and they should have the same rights as everyone else, but it would certainly help those of lesser means be able to pay for a private schooling.

Public schools means the curriculum is in the hands of a liberal elite and that curriculum can be manipulated to inculcate values in children that are antithetical to those parents try to instill. Karl Marx did advocate a “free” public education specifically for this purpose. Examine the increasingly numerous examples of conflict between public schools and parents who are Christians.

Read about the saga of David Parker out of Lexington, Massachusetts, Ironically, that’s where the “shot heard around the world” was fired that brought on a revolution to give people liberty and yet now, that same town is trying its very best to take away the rights of parents over what their kids are exposed to.

Vouchers promote freedom, liberty, and to borrow the term I so often hear members of the SCEA use, democracy. Anyone who opposes vouchers or tax credits, etc… should read what Nobel Prize winning economist, the late Milton Friedman wrote about school choice. Read what Abigail Thernstrom writes about school choice.

The person who has identified herself as the “wolf” is so very wrong and should read the facts.

There are many other factors that make school choice, vouchers, etc. a wise thing to implement.

Here’s a suggestion: go talk to your local superintendent and find out how excited he/she is about teaching Hispanics who can’t speak English. What you will hear — albeit unofficially — is that they don’t want to do it. Public schools arguably do a good job of teaching kids in the middle of the bell curve, but do a lousy job as you move out away from the mean. The Catholic church program would have helped meet a need that isn’t being met. Show me somebody who thinks that teaching children under such circumstances is a misuse of public funds, and I will show you an education union member.

More importantly, the point is not rhetoric: it is a tangible example of what vouchers could provide. Your response is the contrary: nothing on why or how vouchers are a scam, they “just are.” It’s as if you say it enough it might actually become true. “Snake Oils” and “scams” are starting to sound more and more like “Strom Problems” and “dustbunnies,” with all the scintillating intellectual stimulation that those chains embodied.

By the way, the “classically liberal” was tongue-in-cheek, but evidently over most of the naysayers heads.