{"id":4756,"date":"2005-03-25T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2005-03-25T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T12:18:20","slug":"ill-vouch-for-his-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4756","title":{"rendered":"I’LL VOUCH FOR HIS ARGUMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a meaty, well-done overview of libertarian opposition to school vouchers<\/A>:<\/p>\n

The main objection to government vouchers is that they are paid for by the taxpayers \u2014 the same taxpayers who already fund the public school system. So not only are vouchers an income-transfer program, they amount to a double tax: the taxpayer foots the bill for both public and private schools. Vouchers are \u201cfresh money.\u201d Tax money spent on educational vouchers does not come out of tax money spent for traditional schooling. No current voucher proposal even hints at a reduction in funding for public schools to pay for vouchers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was a “wet” voucherist myself until relatively recently — I thought the subversion of the public system worth the redistribution aspect, but once I realized how much danger the very existence of private education would face when the government started sprinkling dollars around, I swam to the anti side and dried myself off for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a meaty, well-done overview of libertarian opposition to school vouchers: The main objection to government vouchers is that they are paid for by the taxpayers \u2014 the same taxpayers who already fund the public school system. So not only are vouchers an income-transfer program, they amount to a double tax: the taxpayer foots the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}