I don’t see how your tax-paying right-wing Christian’s situation is any different than a person who prefers private school or somebody who has no school age children. The school tax taxes them all, just the same as the person who enrolls his children in public school.
Should a childless person get a rebate? If not, then why should the right-wing Christian?
I send my children to Catholic school and gladly pay the bill. If I couldn’t, after paying the ridiculous school taxes in my town, the Catholic school offers help.
Frankly, I do not support public education. It is far to sensitive a matter to be handled by the state. It would be far preferable if there were no school taxes whatsoever, and people were responsible for the education of their own children. Failing that, I support vouchers.
Neither should have been taxed in the first place.
It is far to sensitive a matter to be handled by the state. It would be far preferable if there were no school taxes whatsoever, and people were responsible for the education of their own children. Failing that, I support vouchers.
I agree with these points. But failing even vouchers, I do not see why the Christian should be less pushy about getting Jesus in the public school as the secularist is about pushing him out. Its a conflict that should not have to take place, but here we are. My point is as soon as there were government schools, the hands-off religion clause of the First Amendment was already completely violated. It is no more violated if the school is overtly Christian then it is as overtly secular.
If and when the Christian right were to succeed in pushing Jesus back into public schools, the big government secular left might finally support smaller government in that respect. But as long as Jesus is banished from any state sponsored activity, expect the secular left to push for more government sponsorship of every aspect of our lives.