Weird “Right Wing” Welfare Scheme “School Choice” Picks Up Steam

A giveaway to the rich, disguised as school choice

House Ways and Means Education Committee Chair Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, asks a question as Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Chair Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, listens during a budget presentation to lawmakers on Feb. 5, 2025 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. Garrett sponsored last year's CHOOSE Act, which gives families tax credits of $7,000 for each eligible child to be spent on nonpublic education. Orr recently inc…

Weird “Right Wing” Welfare Scheme “School Choice” Picks Up Steam

School choice is the best thing since sliced bread. That’s what the politicians said when they discovered a new way to spend billions of dollars on a vague agenda without a standard definition, or a coherent objective.Speaker Dade Phelan said the following in 2023:Around the same time, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick was saying school choice would save the children from the “woke culture” in public schools. (16 seconds, sound way up for full enjoyment)…