by Patrick J. Buchanan – June 12, 1998

…If the poor get $5,000 vouchers to escape the blackboard
jungles, while near-poor neighbors, whose taxes subsidize
those vouchers, do not — is that just?…

Historians may well mark June 9 as the D-Day of the school-choice movement in America. On this day, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court ruled that tax-backed tuition vouchers, worth $5,000 each, can be deposited at Bible Christian or St. Teresa’s.
Only the U.S. Supreme Court now stands between parents and an exploding free market in primary and secondary education.