bait and switch for Arizona's rich
Voucher expansion was overwhelmingly shot down by voters just a few years ago. That didn’t stop the GOP-run Legislature or Gov. Doug Ducey from ignoring the will of Arizona citizens and passing a law along party lines that would allow all of Arizona’s 1.1 million K-12 student to receive roughly $7,000 in taxpayer dollars to pay for private school.
The 'gold standard': Ducey heralds first-in-nation voucher law
The plan was sold as a way of providing a leg up for the disadvantaged when, in fact, it is a handout for the rich.
That sad fact became apparent as soon as the state started accepting requests for voucher funding.
Roughly 75% of the applications for the funding came from the parents of students who had never been inside an Arizona public school. In other words, the state mostly would be handing out taxpayer money to people who already are sending their children to private schools.
People who already can afford to do so.
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Thats like giving away 20% off coupons to Ruth Chris and saying youre doing this to help the hungry.
Poor people cant afford Ruth Chris .. 20% off or 50% off
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but the christian, talking in tongues SCOTUS said its now okay for tax payer money to go to religious schools ... bc "public tax payer money going to religious institutions" is somehow in the original intent of the Constitution ..