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Kasz216 on 06 June 2011
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Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
 

Nope.  A voucher system is essentially a coupon for private schools, you give them the voucher and it either covers tuition or most tuition.

Will the rich get money off too in a national system.  However so will the poor.

In fact the poor who use private schools benefit more, because they pay less in school taxes... and the voucher is an across the board even amount.

If you don't own your home and don't play the lottery in a lot of cases you might not be paying anything for education in the first place outside of school supplies.

Either way it's not really a tax break since your actually handed the money and it can go only towards school.

 

The way I'm seeing it is (and correct me if I'm wrong)

 

Currently the rich pay towards school:

Taxes + Fees

The poor pay:

Taxes

 

Under the new system it would be the rich paying:

Taxes + Fees over amount from voucher

and the poor would be paying:

Taxes + Fees over amount from voucher

 

So essentially the new system means that the amount the rich pay towards schooling would be reduced no?

Your mistaken on a number of points.



Not all rich people put their kids in private schools.... most don't in fact.  The only rich people who do, are usually either religious, find an extremely top .0001% school or are people who live in less then optimal neighberhoods for some reason or another. (Built a big house their and it went down, convience for buisness, etc.)

Those who are rich, usually live in public school districts where public schools perform very well.

A number of poor people do put there children in private schools because it's the only way for their children to learn, because the poor tend to live in areas where the school districts suck.

For example... I went to an above average school and it was a public school.  My family wasn't rich, but it was a nice middle class union family.

A half an hour away the local schools almost has as many drop outs as they did successful graduates.

 

So basically it splits up into about 4 groups ignoring the middle class.

 

Rich People - Pay taxes = Get good Schools.

Rich People - Pay taxes + Fees = get good schools.

Poor People - Pay some taxes (property based mostly) + Feest = Get good schools.

Poor People - Pay some taxes = Get bad schools.

 

With Vouchers it becomes


Rich people - Pay taxes = Get Good Schools - Number stays about the same

Rich People - Pay taxes + fees = Get good schools - number stays about the same.

Poor People - Pay some taxes + maybe... fees maybe not. (Maybe?) = Get good schools, number increases, and your average person may actually get more back in fees then they paid in taxes... and MAY actually get back all the money they spend. 

The average Private School Tution is around $8,500.  A private school voucher being $5,000 probably pays for a decent number of private schools in full... espiecally in poor neighberhoods... if it doesn't... that's $5,000 less a parent has to pay to be worried that they won't have to send there kids to a school district where more then half drop out.  (Like the public school district area I live in right now... and is facing like 300 million in cuts!)

Poor People pay some taxes = get the same poor education.