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JFK's avatar

The obvious ones that are tainted by hysteria and extremists are immigration, police reform and common sense gun control and you can throw in the proper way to address climate change without crippling our economy or layering on overdone regulations.

Conceptually I agree with some level of school choice but my concern is we are going to offer vouchers to parents who want to send their kids to private school. Inevitably with tuition being subsidized these schools will only continue to raise the cost of tuition ala the way colleges have the last 20 years. Government subsidies will not be able keep up with these prices so the vouchers will only cover a portion of the tuition and there is a large segment in our population that can’t afford to pay ANYTHING toward k-12 school. That means poor people will have to send their kids to public school that will be gutted because they have no money to work with, and thus the educational and economic divide in this country will only accelerate which is rapidly approaching an unsustainable situation.

So maybe I’m not fully grasping the plan. Like I said I’m conceptually in favor of choice, but only if this doesn’t leave the less well off in our society to fall further behind.

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For many years, libertarians & conservatives tried and failed to implement school-choice reforms in many states. Then, Corey DeAngelis succeeded in getting school-choice reforms passed in many states. It appears that his approach to getting GOP legislators to pass school choice reform was literally the only way of doing it that succeeded. If you can't point to any successful alternative, then you can't claim he did it the "wrong" way, especially when you have no public-policy achievements of your own. I have drafted a few state code sections and CFR sections. Have you ever drafted any, or gotten any laws enacted? If you haven't, what basis do you have to criticize him? It is worth noting that critical race theory was not criticized only by conservatives, but also libertarian think-tanks like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, well over a decade ago.

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