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Originally Posted by Jefferson Why are you ASSUMING that school vouchers will damage the public schools? | It's a question of simple economics.
Where is the money for the vouchers going to be coming from?
You only have a couple of options. Raise taxes to cover the increased costs, or take from the public schools. (Or some variant inbetween...)
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Originally Posted by Jefferson What you're really doing is ADMITTING that America's public schools are INFERIOR to its private, parochial, charter and magnet schools. | I wasn't "admitting" that at all. It's simple logic.
If you have "two" alternatives, and you make one alternative more economically feasible, you're going to see more people switch to that alternative.
And moreover, I suspect that public schools do provide an inferior product. I think that should be fairly easy to check with test scores and the like.
But I haven't looked, and I suspect you haven't either Jefferson. "(Gay marriage) is a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition or just a random fetish."
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