So you take dollars from everyone, and then redistribute only to one set of people based on certain qualifications (school-aged chldren)?
If one family wants to help another family with education, that's fine by me, but your argument is specious and smells of Socialism, plus it can be used to justify all sorts of nasty things, e.g., EITC.
Look at this whole thread. Far too many “conservatives” have simply given up on getting rid of Big Government and are content to just “reform” it by embedding it deeper and deeper into American life.