From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.trump,can.politics
Subject: Re: Well this won't come as any shock...
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 23:14:48 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Muffler Bearings LLC
On 2025-09-05, LeftistDon'tMatter <IronWhite@SystemicPatriotism.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 15:39:46 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom
><OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>
>>Chris Voigtlander wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>
>>> On 9/5/2025 9:38 AM, super70s wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Private prisons are some of the most mismanaged and violent
>>>> prisons we have.
>>>
>>> Private prisons are not comparable to schools. The prisoners are
>>> not "consumers" of the prisons, and they do not have and should
>>> not have any choice in which prison they are to serve their
>>> sentences. The consumers of education services *should* have
>>> choice in which schools they wish to use.
>>
>>They do... as long as they have enough money. The glory of
>>capitalism, dontcha know.
>>
>>Public schools are for those who don't have enough money (although
>>in my experience the public school I went to was top-notch).
>>
>>I suppose subsidizing private schools through vouchers is
>>reminiscent of Nixon's "milk money", bailing out farmers, banks,
>>and automakers, and other screw-ups. :-)
>>
>>Socialism!
>
> "Subsidizing" private schools by letting people apply their "school
> tax" to a private school is a way for poor people to have school
> choice. That allows people to send their kids to a school that isn't
> dominated by the evil teacher's unions.
Exactly.
Not using the public school then why are taxes funding it?
Maybe a small portion of the tax to pay for using the playground, ball field and
so forth but otherwise it should be nothing.
The public education system is failing the students it's supposed to be educating.
Why should my tax dollars support failure?
--
pothead
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Then our choices make us."
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