I have another press release in my e-mail inbox from the Alliance for School Choice, which includes a letter asking Congress to "provide displaced families reimbursement for their enrollment in private, parochial and charter schools."
It's signed by, among others, putative libertarians Clint Bolick and William Mellor (of the nominally libertarian Institute for Justice), and of course someone from the Milton Friedman Socialist Education Foundation.
Do they even try to justify their views in libertarian terms anymore? Given this rhetoric, I can't imagine that they do.
Of course, that is not surprising, given that Mr. Bolick has publicly stated in the past that he believes vouchers are libertarian, but if anyone ever convinced him that vouchers were incompatible with libertarianism, then he would choose vouchers over libertarianism, because "school choice" is just that important to him.
Perhaps someone convinced him.
(The true libertarians are the group Mr. Carson links us to below: the Alliance for Separation of School and State.)
