1.   Non-cash vouchers will allow parents who are cut off the cash roles to obtain diapers, clothing and school supplies for their children.

2.   The vouchers allow low-income families to find their own housing, and to use government subsidies to help pay the costs.

3.   Vouchers would allow Medicare beneficiaries to purchase private insurance from competing companies at government expense.

4.   While proponents say vouchers would allow poor people also to become investors, most of the parents who would take this step are already the right kinds of parents.

5.   Vouchers allow parents of students at poorly performing public schools to attend private schools.

6.   Vouchers allow parents to take their children out of public schools and use tax dollars to send them to private schools.

7.   Vouchers allow parents to pick the school their child attends, public or private.