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Freedom lovers for tax-funded vouchers
by Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996
Many freedom lovers believe that tax-funded vouchers will improve schooling by adding competition. Some focus on the teachers unions as The Big Problem and see vouchers as a way to reduce their influence. Some see vouchers as an important, even necessary, stepping stone toward full Separation.
I've had discussions with many freedom lovers on the voucher issue. A few have not yet devoted much thought ("Friedman is for vouchers and the unions are against them. That's good enough for me"). Most, such as Joe Bast, David Boaz, Milton Friedman, Andy Little and those on the list below, have given this issue a lot of thought and still maintain their position rather than accept mine.
Sure, it's frustrating when people I respect and like are so stubborn (oops, look who's talking). So, to keep a sense of perspective, I often end a conversation on the voucher issue with the statement, "I don't expect perfection in my friends for fear they might reciprocate."
Larry Arnn Claremont Institute
Mike Arata Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism
Wm. Bentley Ball Attorney
Bernard Baltic Reason Foundation
Joe Bast Heartland Institute
Doug Bandow Columnist
David Barulich Excel
Janet Beales Reason Foundation
Joel Belz WORLD Magazine
Lloyd Billingsley Writer
David Boaz Cato Institute
Clint Bolick Institute for Justice
Ed Crane President of Cato Institute
Brad Dacus Rutherford Institute
Bro Theodore Drahmann Christian Brothers Conference
Mae Duggan Citizens for Educ. Freedom
Edward Erikson Calvin College
Milton Friedman Nobel Laureate
David Harmer Heritage Foundation
Kevin Irvine 1991 Colo. Teacher of the Year
David Kirkpatrick Virgil Blum, SJ Center
Manny Klausner Reason Foundation
Myron Lieberman Author
Rabbi Pinchas Lipner Hebrew Academy
Andrew Little Buckeye Institute
Bishop Norman McFarland Diocese of Orange
Fr Richard John Neuhaus First Things
Sr Renee Oliver CEF Retired
Joe Overton Mackinac Institute
Linda Page Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy
Quentin Quade Virgil Blum, SJ Center
Lovett Peters Pioneer Institute
James Peyser Pioneer Institute
Jack Roeser Family Taxpayer Foundation
Dan Rosenthal Silver and Gold Report
Michael Rothschild Bionomics Institute
Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum
Dr Robert Simonds NACE/CEE
Sam Staley Buckeye Institute
Tom Tancredo Independence Institute
Kevin Teasley Center for Study of Popular Culture
Robert Teegarden Calif Catholic Conference
Lance Uzumi Pacific Research Foundation
Michael Watson Arkansas Policy Foundation
Walter Williams George Mason University
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