Submitted by charlie, Nov 9, 2007 12:03

I would dearly love for someone to explain to me why vouchers are considered such a slam-dunk "conservative" issue, which is why everyone is surprised that they failed in Utah.

Yes, utah is a conservative state, but conservatives tend to oppose big government, which includes government financing of private businesses. Yes, people in Utah like private schools, especially religiously oriented ones, but this voucher thing was a plan to take government money, tax money paid by all, and use it to benefit a few and, let's be honest, richer people who can afford to send their kids to private school. Yes, vouchers might make it possible for some lower income people to send children, but not all.

And the bottom line is, vouchers are government subsidy of private business. That's not conservative, that's liberal, which is why 62 percent of Utah voters said no to it. That's about the same percentage that democratic -- liberal? -- presidential candidates tend to lose in utah.

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