D-News: Voucher supporters take an odd position

Bob Bernick Jr. in the Deseret News:

While others may certainly disagree, I see the private-school voucher movement as a classic government entitlement program. It is also a government redistribution of wealth, one that in reality may well help the more well-to-do among us (who can afford to send their children to private schools) at the cost of the least well-to-do among us (who can't afford, even with a bit of state taxes, to send their children to private schools).

In both areas, one would think that conservative Utah Republicans would be against both a new government entitlement program and against a redistribution of wealth.

Not so. The very base of the pro-voucher movement comes from conservative Republicans. To me, an odd development.