Seriously, Folks: School Voucher Proponents Need to Get Real
Dan S, all that verbose self-satisfaction and you still can’t answer the question, can you?
You cite the NY state constitution. You do not answer the question by what right, consistent with a fairly universal understanding that federal government has never had an enumerated right establishing monopolistic, behavior-influencing institutions at the detriment of both their dependents and of the competitive alternatives, we may or should have such a thing.
You further cite vague historical precedents. From which we could justify every originalist aberration imaginable.
Still the question, then: Where did government get the right to harm the public’s welfare by way of destroying choice and with it, social progress? Is that constitutional too?
Why is it that, for example, Robert Balfanz of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Social Organizations of Schools points to chronic “dropout factories”, his term and not mine.
You’re right, I won’t debate what to do to “fix” this corruption of choice and free markets. I’d just like a single, coherent, and intellectually honest assessment of why it rationally, ethically, and constitutionally exists at level that depends entirely on federal funding and management.
