Another argument is that vouchers would provide competition to the public schools and, like when the Japanese started building better cars than Americans made, the public schools would quickly improve. What a laugh. Fords are owned by stockholders, whose income will rise if people buy more Fords than Toyotas. Schools are owned by taxpayers, whose income will rise if taxes are cut. A considerable number of Arkansas taxpayers are even trying to eliminate school taxes.
Hypocrisy abounds among supporters of vouchers.
Black critics of the public schools seem not to care about what will happen to the black kids who even with vouchers can't afford to go to private schools. Many whites who want vouchers are simply continuing their opposition to integration, and, of course, they are bolstered by surveys showing that blacks also like vouchers. There was an interesting exchange Sunday on ABC's This Week between columnist George Will, who likes vouchers, and activist Jesse Jackson, who doesn't. That's right, Jackson said. But that choice was subsidized by the parent, not the government.