School voucher systems create an unbalance in the education system.

-----YOUR CASE----- You try and paint a picture about why school vouchers would not remove double payment, but I honestly don't get it. This isn't a central part of my contention anyway. ---- ON MY CASE---- You've been arguing my case for me. .. Thank you! 1) a) "It is a general rule of thumb that the more something costs, the better it is. " I'd agree. "Also, private schools are always better than public schools" I'd agree. So we agree that parents/children will find private schools better, and that private schools are indeed better, so where is the disagreement? I argued that school vouchers will lead to an efficient distribution of funding, because parents/children are spending their voucher money on better private schools. Thus, schools with better quality are receiving more resources. (b) "However, a public school can never become better than a private school" Agreed, and I never argued this. I argued that a public school will improve, which you didn't contend. "This is harder when public schools are only paid through taxes, and private schools are out to make a profit. " Agreed, every private sector is usually out to make a profit, and the public sectors are funded by taxes. The benefits of privatization and competition have shown several times in US history. Although you can't refute it at this late stage, I will nevertheless quote examples for the benefit of the readers. From wikipedia: ". .. .similar competition has helped in manufacturing, energy, transportation, and parcel postal (UPS, FedEx vs. USPS) sectors of government that have been socialized and later opened up to free market competition. " I know some people hate wikipedia, but wikipedia offers further sources for supporting the above quote, which interested readers can follow if they wish. ----- REGARDING BALANCE------ I gave an analogy of helping half of the 10 million suffering Africans, and you responded: 1) "Instead of giving two apples each to five million people, give one apple each to ten million people. " This can't apply to the education system. You can't give the children in the public sector half a schooling in private schools and half a schooling in public schools. 2) It would be perfectly acceptable if the government could conjure up money for school vouchers out of thin air" You are changing your definition of "balance". You argued that the education system is unbalanced because some people are being benefited while others are not; it doesn't matter where the money, or how much money, for funding the school vouchers come from. I then argued that there always has existed an imbalance in the educational system. You responded by saying that "school vouchers are avoidable". But let me get this straight: you can't create something that was already there. For eg. , global warming cannot create heat in the house that is already on fire. If there already is an unbalance in the system, as you concede, then school vouchers, whether avoidable or not, do very, very little to add to it. YOUR ALTERNATIVE: Your alternative ignores several important things, such as the benefits of competition (empirically proven), the benefits of school vouchers to public schools (again proven by my studies). I have provided you facts about privatization and about school vouchers.