Reply #153: that's because your analogy is flawed.

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Medicaid provides services to the poor, and is therefore a base service by nature. Same with food stamps. Roads are useable by anyone.

Unless you are going to posit a nation full of private schools willing to accept all comers, public money for private education equates to public resources given for the benefit of the few.

Let's cut to the chase, Nederland: to work, public education must be essentially socialist.