Bush celebrates voucher win

Washington Times ^ | 7/02/02 | Bill Sammon

[kattracks]

CLEVELAND

[Slyfox]

What does Lou Rockwell think about vouchers?

[Crossbow Eel]

 
 

This has been a good week ! Lets hope it continues !

[hchutch]

FYI. Looks like POTUS is going for a right hook on the Dems.

[rdb3]

Who cares what he thinks?

[hchutch]

My thoughts exactly.

Let's start driving a wedge between some black families and the NAALCP leadership.

[LarryLied]

The voucher decision was a blow to the gut, the tax credit proposal, if passed, is a haymaker to the head. Check out what government teachers are saying about it all:

http://teachers.net/chatboard/

No need to register to post.

[hchutch]

I sense serious panic among some, and a number who understand why people want the vouchers. We may be able to start rolling them shortly. We gotta get the Senate to do it, IMHO.

[Slyfox]

You know what would really work? If I could get back from my taxes the same percentage of a per child tax deduction that was issued to parents back in the fifties. I can't remember exactly what it was but if I could get at least $15,000 I'd be able to afford any school I liked. And then government wouldn't have to spend all my money paying stupid bureaucrats to come up with a hair-brained scheme that will only give poor parents a $2,500 voucher. Most of the schools I know are AT LEAST $10,000 per year.

[LarryLied]

Not sure but I believe the deduction was $600 per kid back in the 1950s. According to the Inflation calculator, $600 in 1958 is the equivalent of $3629.24 in 2001.

[mware]

I just got these numbers from CNN/USA/Today/Gallup poll.

Latest Bush Approval Rating Stands at 76%

Approval ratings show a slight increase during the month of June; the most recent is roughly the same as the approval level found in April and May.

A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds that about three in four Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job as president. Fewer than one in five Americans disapprove of Bush.

[Slyfox]

I heard Phyllis Schlafly describe it in a speech and the figure if it had kept up with inflation was something like $10,000 to $15,000. I have three deductions at home right now. Sure would help ME out with my choice in education.

[hchutch]

And the same should be done with a personal deduction, if you ask me. Want to sneak a tax cut past everyone? This is a way to do it.

[LarryLied]

I know my parents weren't concerned much about taxes in the 1950s. They were of average income and could have sent us to private schools had they wished. But the government schools in Connecticut at that time were OK. Wasn't until my last year in HS that the decline really set in. Bunch of new teachers arrived from Yale.Everyone joked that they had come down the Ho Chin Minh trail. It was no joke as we latter discovered.

Schlafly's numbers seem right. $600 in 1950 equals about $4,300 today.

[Slyfox]

$4,300 times 3 = $12,900. I could afford to send my kids to private school if'n they just gave me back my own money and didn't siphon it through the government trough first.

[LarryLied]

And that is just a deduction. A tax credit would mean you could send them to private school and spend more time with them rather than at work. Cheaper for society in the long run to have parents home taking care of their kids than out working to pay taxes.

[Slyfox]

Yeah, but wouldn't a tax credit come with strings attached? I'll take it as long as the government can't tell the private school I'd like to send my kids to that they have to hire homosexual teachers just cuz they are accepting my money.

[LarryLied]

A deduction would probably be the same. Democrats would like to put so many conditions on private schools there would be no point in sending kids to them. I would like to see people get a tax credit or deduction for simply keeping kids out of public school. Teach them at home or send them to private school. Get the tax break no matter what.