Presidential imposter Duh-bya has proposed a voucher scheme in which he is trying to get his foot in the constitutional door so that his fellow conservatives can fling the door wide open.
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Here's how the scam would work: Duh-bya is proposing a voucher scheme in which vouchers could be used for parochial schools only in the most extreme cases, such as poor children in bad public schools. However, either vouchers for parochial schools are constitutional, or they're not. If vouchers for parochial schools in the most extreme cases were to be declared constitutional, then vouchers would be constitutional, regardless of whether or not the case is extreme. Once vouchers were declared constitutional in extreme cases, then vouchers would be constitutional in any case.
This is the Good Cop, Bad Cop scam. Duh-bya plays the good cop and tries to fake us into going along with vouchers in extreme cases. Then, Trent Lott and his buddies follow up with legislation making vouchers for parochial schools available to anybody, since vouchers would then supposedly by constitutional. It's all just a subtle, sneaky scam to legalize tax dollar vouchers for parochial schools.
Duh-bya claims that the vouchers would be made available only to students at failing schools. The plan, however, would have the effect of encouraging Christians to deliberately make their public schools look bad, even when their public schools are providing a good education.
If you wanted to get tax dollars to pay for your kid's parochial school education, it would be easy to beat the system. Just tell your kid to study hard and do well in school, but when the standardized school accountability tests are given, deliberately give wrong answers. That way, you'd be getting an excellent public school education, but it would look like the public school is failing you. Since the public school would appear to be failing, you would then qualify for voucher money and you could take the money and run.
The mission of religious parochial schools is to train young people to become missionaries to the world for that particular religion. While it certainly is legal in this country to do that, it's not constitutional to send me a tax bill for the cost of supporting such ministries against my consent.
Some complain that it's not fair that they pay taxes to support the public schools, but then pay a second time to send their kids to a parochial school. However, it is, in fact, fair. Here's why:
There is a market basket of publicly funded programs in any given community, but nobody uses all of those services. Each citizen picks and chooses which public services they will utilize, but you don't get a refund or rebate for not using a service.
For example, there are public parks, public libraries, public housing, publicly funded food (food stamps), public health care (public hospitals and clinics), public roads, public transportation (buses, commuter trains and rapid transit trains), as well as public education.
Most people who use private education, while also paying for public ed, make generous use of public parks, libraries, transit, housing and/or health care. They are definitely not getting short-changed when it comes to consuming publicly funded services at somebody else's expense.
Other people use public schools, but buy their own books, go to a private health club, drive their own cars, see their own doctors and live in their own houses. You don't get a rebate for not using those other public services.
It is, therefore, false to claim that people who use private education are being treated unfairly if they don't get a rebate on that one particular service, since they are likely consuming many of those other public services, at someone else's expense.
It's not my job to pay for your private education with my tax dollars, just as it's not your job to pay for my health club membership, car, house, books and doctor. Besides, if you've been paying attention to world events, you know that most conflicts that take place around the world are over religion, so the less religion there is in the world, the better off the world will be.
Don't fall for the foot-in-the-door voucher scam. Just say, "No!" to Duh-bya's education vouchers proposals.
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