There’s an old expression, “You get more of what you subsidize.” Making tuition tax deductable is a step in the right direction. Yesterday I had a hearing on my bill HB 1240 which allows a tax deduction for tuition paid to any school in the State of Missouri from kindergarten through post secondary for a dependant child. People should not have to pay taxes on money they earn if they are spending it on something fundamentally beneficial to the community.
An economic downturn is a great time to look at what we are doing with the few precious dollars we have left. Education falls into this category. Children benefit from a variety of educational methods. When they are put into the educational setting that best fits their needs, their parents should have some tax benefit. From an economic perspective, everyone wins. It is my hope that more parents –as a result of this bill- will be able to afford an augmented education. The best programs are those that allow our taxpayers to be rewarded for exercising their own personal responsibility.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Davis bill puts more public money into private schools
In her latest capitol report, Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, explains her bill which would enable anyone who sends children to private schools to deduct an amount equal to the total of the tuition. Let's just call it another method of implementing educational vouchers without using the words:
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So what is wrong with parents getting a tax-rebate for educating their children as opposed to the public schools not doing it?
For that matter, why not have tuition vouchers and call them tuition vouchers, openly and honestly?
A lot of us taxpayers don't like the way you liberal teachers turn our children into drones like yourself. So, sooner or later some right-wing politicians are going to promise to do what we want and close down the public schools by cutting off their tax-payer supported dollars.
And then you liberal drones will be out of the schools like your kind are out of the newspapers because nobody really wants to buy what lies you produce, Turner. You fools lied yourself out of a job.
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