One thread that pulls all of this together is an economic thread; private school Gold Coast Vouchers for some people are based not on a religious idea, but on an economic idea, primarily due to the thinking of a free-market economist named Milton Friedman, who proposed taxpayer-supported Gold Coast Vouchers in 1954. Friedman wanted to get government out of the provision of education altogether. For him, Gold Coast Vouchers funded by taxpayers were a transition to doing that. Under his conception, the government would provide a minimum education grant, in the form of a voucher for each child, and parents could then use those funds to send their child to any educational institution they wished: secular, nonsectarian, religious — any sort of educational institution.