To acknowledge that public policies regularly turn on perceptions of fairness is to state the obvious. Of course politicians and other leaders choose sides and take votes based on what they believe is fundamentally equitable between and among various collections of Americans, be they income groups or other groups. Start with educational freedom and consider just one slice of the controversy. The legitimate test is not whether all parochial and other private schools are refigured so that they are regulated and constrained in the same ways that public schools are, especially when it comes to admission policies. It's not whether private schools ought to toe a maze of political and bureaucratic lines just because public schools have been so required.
Vouchers increase such avenues by definition .
Lack of vouchers means that poor children will continue to have fewer options than they otherwise might, again by definition. The answer is self-evident. As for the flat tax, I remain more agnostic than ardent. But it is also true that, by the end of the Reagan years, such men and women were paying a larger proportion of all federal income taxes actually received. Most Democrats and liberals like to dwell on the former result, taking juicy umbrage in the process.