[CFW]

It is my understanding that this afternoon, SB 233 the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act has passed the House. Thank you Rep Jon Burns and many others worked tirelessly to get this bill over the finish line. Many thought the issue was dead for this session.

[vikingd00d]

According to https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/64762, it only passed out of the Education committee, and now can go to the floor for a vote.

[Da Coyote]

“Your tax dollars could be used to put some Georgia students through private school.”
Note the first grade reasoning of our “media”.
No need to counter the laughable logic, except to state the Captain Obvious fact that our tax dollers should go to eliminating ‘Publik Skoolz’.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Government money will come with government strings attached. Why not give tax credits for those who choose not to use the garbage public schools?

I had to pay 2 private school tuitions, from Pre-K through 12th grade, AND 3/4 of my property taxes for crappy public schools.

[econjack]

This sounds very similar to Milton Friedman’s voucher system. The reason for a voucher system is because school funding relies on property taxes for about 80% of public school budgets. The problem is that property taxes don’t fit either the Ability to Pay or Benefits Received principles of taxation. Your neighbor may pay the same amount of property tax for their house but have 4x the income, which violates the Ability to Pay principle. Likewise, many people do not have children currently in school and a lot of people have never had children at all, which fails the Benefits Received principle.

The voucher system removes some of the objections to the property tax, especially if tax payers with no children are allowed to sell their voucher on the open market. It does not appear that the GA proposal allows this.