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To: FJB2

I’d much rather see a tuition tax credit. Send your child to whatever school you want. If you pay tuition you get the credit.


7 posted on 04/30/2008 9:08:32 AM PDT by philled (Rest in Peace, Sgt Merlin German. www.merlinsmiracles.com)
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To: philled
I’d much rather see a tuition tax credit. Send your child to whatever school you want. If you pay tuition you get the credit.

To limit church/state constitutional challenges, the credit should be for whatever amount a taxpayer would have paid in taxes to support their own child's education had they used the state's education system.

This way a taxpayer would simply be redirecting their own education dollars to a school of their choice without redirecting the dollars of other taxpayers. This makes it difficult for opponents to argue that the state is paying for a religious education.

Call it "citizen directed education funding".

I'd generalize and go further by giving similar tax credits for things like home security systems.

8 posted on 04/30/2008 10:10:45 AM PDT by mc6809e
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