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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Daily Kos: Do you want your tax dollars to fund right wing fundamentalism?

Daily Kos: Do you want your tax dollars to fund right wing fundamentalism?

Do you want your tax dollars to fund right wing fundamentalism?

That may seem like an odd question. Perhaps you think I am talking about the tax deductible nature of contributions to religious organizations and schools. One could make the argument that such is a tax subsidization of religious views with which one disagreses, but we have a well established pattern of allowing such offsets without regard to the religious beliefs thus supported.

But what about vouchers? What if we use tax dollars to give vouchers to families who then have complete freedom to pick a school for their children? Will not those vouchers help pay for textbooks whose contents might be objectionable to many?

The operable Supreme Court decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639 (2002), comes from the voucher