The voucher expansion that Indiana legislators approved last week constitutes a massive handout to religious institutions and a transfer of wealth from everyday Hoosiers to benefit Indiana's elite.
Lawmakers voted early Friday to raise the income limit for families receiving private-school tuition vouchers from 300% to 400% of the level for receiving reduced-price school meals. For a family of four, that's $220,000.
The expansion raises the cost to the state of the voucher program to $1.1 billion over the next two years. That's up from an estimated $300 million that Indiana is spending this year on vouchers.
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