Multiple members of my family with kids are middle class, from high to low, and all send their kids to private K-12 schools and scrimp and save to do so. They are not “wealthy” and in addition to their private tuition they pay all the federal, state and local taxes that go to K-12 schools, money that does zip, zilch, nada for their kids.
Just because SOME who may benefit from a particular tax deduction is neither an argument about “fairness” nor an argument against it.
If you want to make the argument to get the federal government out of K-12 education, I’ll join you.
But as long as ANY taxes are going to K-12 education I will argue that 100% of it, per student should not be dedicated to any particular schools; it should be assigned to parents who assign it to schools of their choice. “public” or private schools.
No get off your class warfare because it has zero, zip, nada to to with Conservatism or “small government”.
Class warfare does indeed have to do with the conservative agenda, when special-class subsidies such as this one create big government maniacs out of purported Freepers such as yourself.
Private schools are overwhelmingly the domain of the wealthy, and the idea of increasing federal funding for education—where the feds don’t belong at all—by giving big, fat, five- and six-figure new entitlements to, yes, predominantly the rich, is the sort of thing only socialite bimbos could be so narrow-sighted as to push for law in this country.
Again, taxpayers provide you with a free education. If you don’t like that, you can buy your own. Or, arguably, schools would be better if state and local governments supported vouchers somehow.
But Ivanka’s massive gift to her socialite moms in Manhattan is obscene.