Paul Begala: Federal budget bill includes two school choice measures that would help reverse America’s cultural decline

Paul Waldman : School choice provisions in budget bill that may get a vote next week would help reverse America 's cultural decline.

Waldman says they would allow taxpayers to reduce tax bills to donate to private K-12 scholarships.

He says a similar House bill would create such a program with a cap of $10 billion , but that's just 6 percent of the $82 billion annual budget request for the U.S. Department of Education .

He argues Congress should strip subsidies that encourage separating children from mothers via childcare and paid leave programs.

Research shows secular schooling is the No. 1 factor causing Americans to lose their faith.

The loss of faith is the entire cause of our fertility crisis, a key component of our entitlement spending crisis.

The top two places people learn the virtues, or the art of self-governance, are in church and at home.

An America without Christianity is not America at all.