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Educational Vouchers: The Double Tax

by Gary North Foundation for Economic Education Saturday, May 1, 1976 Excerpt: “The problems of American public education are the problems associated with any system of government-enforced, tax-supported coercive wealth redistribution: the system of financing conflicts with the expressly stated… Continue Reading…

Independent Schools at Risk

Accepting Government Money Leads to a Loss of Independence Jacob H. Huebert Wednesday, September 1, 1999 “As discontentment with government schools grows, tax-funded “school choice” has emerged as the leading reform proposal. School-choice programs typically include a voucher plan, although… Continue Reading…

Vouchers Are Just Another Welfare Scheme

by Jacob G. Hornberger The Future of Freedom Foundation October 1, 2000 Editor’s comment: This article from 20 years ago, describes the truth about vouchers: they are not a free-market solution to education. “If proponents of school vouchers get their… Continue Reading…

Great Brain Robbery Seizes Millions of Minds

Hijackers Are Supported by Organized Ignorance by James Ervin Norwood Last updated December 28, 2007 Public Schools Are Flunking Out   Public schools are brain dead and on life support; so let’s pull the plug on them, give them a… Continue Reading…

How I Found Myself Squirming Uncomfortably in Support of Tax-Funded Education Vouchers

An interview with David R. Henderson Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 Note:  David R. Henderson is an economist who has written pro-voucher articles for the Hoover Institution and Insight magazine and is a former… Continue Reading…

Why We Won’t Hush: A Response to Bast and Harmer

Or, how I survived the briar patch and came out grinning by Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 8, October 1996 WebEditor’s note: To see a summary of the 10,000-word Bast and Harmer article that was printed… Continue Reading…

Vouchers Are Bad News for Freedom Lovers

by Marshall Fritz July 19, 2002 Liberals have played Bre’r Rabbit on vouchers. The Supreme Fox — at the request of conservatives and libertarians — has just thrown the liberals into the briar patch they love: More-Big-Government and Less-Self-Reliance. Indeed,… Continue Reading…

Freedom lovers against tax-funded vouchers

by Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 The debate over tax-funded school vouchers historically has been framed with two sides: Dr. Milton Friedman and fellow freedom lovers up against a huge education lobby… Continue Reading…

Four Ways Vouchers Harm Education

by Marshall Fritz Last updated June 21, 2007   Vouchers will harm education in four ways:   1.    Vouchers come with “strings attached.” These soon become chains.   2.    Vouchers expand dependency to self-reliant families now paying for private schooling.… Continue Reading…

Can you say “entitlement”?

by Marshall Fritz Last updated August 11, 2008 Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 The government education monopoly is school welfare, and tax-funded vouchers are the Typhoid Mary of education reforms, spreading dependency and regulation… Continue Reading…