Vouchers should aid poor

School-voucher proponents state that the voucher program will mainly help the poor and low-income students. However, I imagine that most of the low-income families won't have sufficient income to make up the difference between the voucher amount and the total tuition cost.

I would support a school voucher program if the only families eligible to receive the vouchers had annual incomes of less than $30,000 and a total net worth of less than $100,000. If a cap on income and net worth is rejected by the voucher proponents, then we can be sure of their true intentions.

Howard Anderson

Cottonwood Heights