Looking at Education Savings Accounts (ESAs)

This video is from Tennessee but something tells me ESAs are to public education across the country what anti-vax sentiment is to public health.

Education Savings Accounts (ESA) are vouchers that takes state tax money out of neighborhood public schools for use at private schools. ESA voucher proposals are being pushed in other states as foot-in-the-door schemes for greater taxpayer support for private schools and vendors. Whereas traditional public education entities have strict requirements for public meetings, transparency, governance, academic achievement, testing/reporting and financial accountability, such requirements don’t exist and wouldn’t exist for entities receiving tax dollars from ESAs.

ESAs strike me as a variant of rentier capitalism. 

Just a few hours ago I had this insight: search algorithms are crafted to define rentier in terms of natural resources.
Am I alone thinking ours is a rentier economy?
Credit and debt are usually more subject to exploitation than natural resources.

ESAs use taxes for the benefit of a selected group.
The appeal, of course, is getting something for nothing.