Taxes are exorbitant, but increasing the number of parents on the public dole will make taxes even higher. Educational vouchers not only confiscate money through taxation for the use of government-run schools, but now they propose giving that money to private and religious schools. People from many segments of society are tired of paying for waste and poor quality education. Now is the golden opportunity to stop socialism practiced in the name of school choice and rescind school property taxes. Conservative voucher proponents should seize the opportunity of the decade to bring substantive reform consistent with the principles of freedom instead of embracing socialism.
Vouchers are inconsistent with the principles of limited government and conservative philosophy.
It is time to promote reforms in public education which are fiscally responsible while restoring liberty in our nation's schools. School taxes realistically could be repealed if people of principle would get involved. Parental control would cost less while attaining equal or better results. We cannot continue to redistribute funds for the education of other people's children. Children should not continue to receive second-rate schooling while administrators assure their own seniority and teachers work increasingly harder to accomplish an impossible task.