Voucher and so-called ‘school choice’ bills need a reality check | Opinion
30 pieces of legislation had been introduced by several Republican lawmakers
While these proposals’ authors and their supporters have dressed them up with marketing terms like “choice” and “parental empowerment,” there has, so far, been very little discussion about their real implications. And while they’ve built in provisions to attempt to blunt the speed at which this entitlement will grow, within two years of passage, the state of Texas could be taking more than $8 billion from Peter to pay Paul .
If any lawmaker had run for election seeking to utilize 5% of state revenues for a new system of welfare, they assuredly wouldn’t have won their primaries, but that is exactly what is being discussed.
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