Great letter. It goes beyond welfare for the rich. I don't really believe the vouchers are to help the rich kids or the poor kids. I really don't believe the proposed voucher system has anything to do with educating kids and giving parents and kids a choice. What it is is corporate welfare for those who will own the schools and there are people who own chains of private schools. This whole thing is flawed and I believe the pro-voucher propaganda to be not only misleading but a complete bunch of crappola.

Also, for those of you middle-classers like me; if the voucher system is passed, it will cost you. Taxes will be raised. On a $200,000 house, your property taxes will increase $100/year, every year, for at least the next 20 years. And of course that goes up if you have a nicer house than me.

Hammer wrote:

Also, for those of you middle-classers like me; if the voucher system is passed, it will cost you. Taxes will be raised. On a $200,000 house, your property taxes will increase $100/year, every year, for at least the next 20 years. And of course that goes up if you have a nicer house than me.


Of course even the anti voucher people will admit that you totally made this up. There is no property tax increase even possible as a result of vouchers. Vouchers are not funded by property taxes. Please post your sources.

As for this inane letter, I know a truck load of people who will be able afford private school with the help of vouchers. None of them rich. Some poor. I personally home school, so we are not eligible for vouchers even if we wanted to go to private school. However, we could easily afford private school at American Heritage with vouchers. We could not possibly afford it without the vouchers. You guys are liars and despise the poor as much as you despise the rich.

And who is going to pay for the schools that it will take to house another 155,000 projected students in our public education system?  If you can get 155,000 kids on vouchers for a couple of thousand, it seems to me that you would not only save the taxpayers the costs of building all those new schools but also the majority of the costs of educating them.  This is the one aspect that the anti-voucher crowd is ignoring.  Schools will not lose any money because growth will most likely keep pace with the losses.  If the mega-millionaires (Huntsman, Eyres, etc)of the State can figure that out, then who should we trust?  Those who know how to make and save money or those who spend it?

leftintheuc wrote:

unaffiliated_person wrote:

With a 2000 voucher, it would cost about 2-3000 dollars out of pocket to attend a private school with many of their tuition rates.


This is my point: This is still at least a couple hundred bucks per month per child.


It depends on the private school. I was surprised to see how many private schools there are in Utah whose tuition would be completely covered by a voucher:

http://affordableprivateschools.com/bystate.aspx?state=UT

earljr wrote:

Hammer wrote:

Also, for those of you middle-classers like me; if the voucher system is passed, it will cost you. Taxes will be raised. On a $200,000 house, your property taxes will increase $100/year, every year, for at least the next 20 years. And of course that goes up if you have a nicer house than me.


Of course even the anti voucher people will admit that you totally made this up. There is no property tax increase even possible as a result of vouchers. Vouchers are not funded by property taxes. Please post your sources.

As for this inane letter, I know a truck load of people who will be able afford private school with the help of vouchers. None of them rich. Some poor. I personally home school, so we are not eligible for vouchers even if we wanted to go to private school. However, we could easily afford private school at American Heritage with vouchers. We could not possibly afford it without the vouchers. You guys are liars and despise the poor as much as you despise the rich.


It's from a blog about the Wisconsin try at vouchers. They say it didn't work. Competition didn't fix the schools. And property taxes constantly increased to pay for it. Source is againstutahvouchers.blogspot.com