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Show June 11, 1971 The UTAH INDEPENDENT VOUCHER A NEW CONSTITUTION SYSTEM Continued from Continued from book called. The Socialist Tragedy. U.S. resources have been required by the tens of billions since World War II to keep European socialism from collapsing. Imagine having to loan millions to a country such as Sweden. Sweden hasnt had to fight a war in 150 years and when others have gone' to war she has usually sold to both sides. As a Swedish official told me on my Visit two years ago, We ought to l)c the richest per capita nation in the world but socialism is holding us back. Our national housing program is so lxjgged down with red tape P. 6 schools are just not capable of taking over the massive job of educating all of our children on 30-da- notice. Moreover, ys parents who have been complacently letting Big Brother bear the burden of seeing to the educ- ation of their children are to accept that respo- and government planning that young couples must wait for more than eight years before they can have an apartment of their own. Actually, none of the European countries were able to go totally socialist. They had to leave approximately 70 of their productive enterprises in private hands (and more or less competitive) in order to have profits to tax and thereby subsidize the socialized, ed nsibility themselves. What is needed, according to such an appraisal, is some sort of transi- tion plan whereby education can be taken out of the hands of the state and responsibility placed with the where it belongs . V: f 5 enterprises. Even then, however, many of them would have stumbled into bankruptcy without American aid. One of ihc shrewdest gimmicks in the newly proposed constitution for the lT.S. is that any money, is autoneeded to carry out the master-plannin-g matically considered appropriate unless the can get of the Congress to vote against a particular item. The fact that one third of Congress is elected at large makes the possibility of mounting an effective protest virtually impossible. Imagine living in Los Angeles and trying to get a man in Baltimore to vote against a budget item adversely government-owne- d fax-paye- rs two-thir- ds affectingn California. THE NATIONAL REGULATOR The enforcement powers of the central government are set forth in Article .VI and provide for an economic czar who is called thc National Regulator. lie has a p parents. Many voucher advocates see the plan as playing just this sort of role; they view it as a to educational stepping-ston- e freedom. But here too, they have allowed themselves to be deceived. We have seen how any build-u- p in the private sector of education fostered by the voucher plan will almost certainly be accompanied by an equal or greater build-u- p of state control over nominally private P -- Page 7 educa- tional institutions. This is hardly the type of transition that a libertarian would knowingly . advocate. Futhermore, ratherthan shifting the financial burden of education to the consumers of this service, the plan will remove some of the responsibility from those who have already shouldered it. And finally, the voucher system fails utterly to challenge the premise that the ultimate responsibility for education rests with the state. If education is ever to be truly free, it is this premise that must be overturned. (Reprinted from The Freeman magazine, April 1971) Nobody seems able to, name a country with socialized agriculture which actually feeds . . . itself. Susan Huck Nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise. Francis Bacon The longing to be primitive is a disease of culture. George Santayana If you think that to grow a beard is to acquire wisdom, a goat is a complete Plato. Franklin K. Lane The longing to be primitive is a disease of culture. George Santayana If you think that to grow a beard is to acquire wisdom, a goat is a complete Plato. Franklin K. Lane Q00GO2f33 300 flilll 0 0900 1 i:4 .t ; -- . .jffliiax atm, ' Gx9Q3GD ft lYIMff '!t niu 05 dk9QD |