Food Stamps for the Brain

“But if the government adopts responsibilities that God never assigned and begins massive redistributions of wealth accordingly, this creates an ethical problem. King Ahab stole Naboth’s vineyard. Even though Ahab was the established authority, he could not alter the reality of this theft by calling it something else — zoning alterations or land reform. Parents who want charter schools and vouchers are asking, in effect, for others to pay higher taxes to fund their children’s education — and the whole thing becomes simply ‘food stamps for the brain.’ A citizenry may be taxed in order to fund those activities that God requires of the civil magistrate, but secularist education is not one of those activities” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 42).