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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Playing At Markets: Vouchers As A Socialist Trap

by Douglas Dewey Last updated April 18, 2007 Editor’s Note: Douglas Dewey, President of The National Scholarship Center in Washington, DC, delivered these remarks as part of a voucher debate at SepCon’95. They have been edited slightly for length. Originally… Continue Reading…