Lansing State Journal: Recovery program’s expansion still on hold

Lansing State Journal: Recovery program’s expansion still on hold
These kind of supervised recovery programs are probably the only thing that will work, outside of incredible individual will power.
I'm not an evangelical Christian, or even a Christian, but I'd rather have a private, evangelical Christian outfit running a residential treatment center than a government agency, any day of the week.
I don't think the government should give religious groups money, either, but why not a dollar-for-dollar tax credit? So, if you owed $5000 in federal taxes, you could instead give $5000 to a religiously affiliated treatment center, and not give the federals a dime.
In fact, with technology as it is, why not create a free market of private service providers that compete with governments, with public oversight? LImit the government's involvement to oversight and law enforcement - which is what government is good at (sort of) - and get them out of the business of actually providing social services.
I think it would be cool to have competing private schools and treatment centers and clinics in a properly regulated marketplace.
Imagine: you owe $5000 in taxes. You access a list, either on-line or in print, of qualified service providers, to which you can divert up to, say, $4500 of that tax burden. The service providers can market their worth to you. Perhaps brokerages can be licensed to accept your tax dollars and distributed them for you based on your preferences.