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...note were copies of Nixon's "Vietnamization" speeches. Another letter from the Adjutant General's office informed the Mullens that the "nonbattle" casualty had been posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Good Conduct Medal. Then Form 1174 arrived from Army Finance. It was a voucher that the Mullens were asked to sign in order to receive the pay due Michael at the time of his death. They refused to sign without a full accounting. When it came, there was a deduction for advance-leave time that their son was no longer in a position to make...
...million by Esso Italiana, mainly to Italian political parties. Monroe said that Exxon called a halt to the payments in 1971 when it discovered that the subsidiary's president, Vincenzo Cazzaniga, since dismissed, had spent an additional $19 million that had not been authorized. Included was a voucher for $86,000 supposedly paid to the Italian Communist Party, which made sweeping gains in regional elections last month partly by boasting that its hands were "clean" of foreign oil money. The Italian Communists, who wield considerable clout in their country's municipal and union affairs, have denied they ever...
Another proposal offered by Mr. Ferrara was the voucher system. He proposed that, "...every parent would receive the average amount of tax dollars spent on his child, say $1000 in voucher form." He argued that this plan would, "benefit mostly the poor." This is absurd. If the money were distributed in that fashion, families with children in better than average quality schools would under no circumstances allow them to change schools. Families with children in lower quality schools would by necessity have limited mobility and choice of schools in the public system. In a private school market, those with more...
Beyond these difficulties with the voucher proposal, there is hardly any certainty that a private system of educational facilities can compete with the public system of educational facilities already established. For example, the religious school systems are barely managing to survive the current economic crisis, and the day when they appeal for public funding is already past...
What can be done then to break down racial barriers and improve education? Professor Milton Friedman has advanced a voucher proposal, under which every parent would receive the average amount of tax dollars spent on his child, say $1000, in voucher form. He could then use this voucher to send his child to any school, public or private, he chose. This plan would benefit mostly the poor, who would have a chance to escape decrepit inner city schools. The plan would greatly improve education as schools become subject to the demands of the market place. Friedman writes, "Private schools...