vision2020@moscow.com: Re: Private school tax credit

Re: Private school tax credit

Neil Meyer (NMEYER@novell.uidaho.edu)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 10:17:57 PST

Scott
Two cases can be made for the tax credit: fairness and cost
avoidance. The first relates to your social contract. You recieve
your education from others and repay it to the next generation over
your lifetime. The second relates to if they are in private schools
they save all of us the cost of the expanded public system for their
education.

Neil Meyer

> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 12:29:09 -0800
> To: Robert Probasco <rcp@uidaho.edu>
> From: Scott_Dredge@BayNetworks.COM (Scott Dredge)
> Subject: Re: Private school tax credit
> Cc: vision2020@moscow.com

> At 05:01 AM 2/8/98 -0800, Robert Probasco wrote:
> >I don't resent paying taxes when I get a reasonable return for my
> >investment. I do resent paying taxes when I'm funding a problem, not a
> >solution. Any commercial business with the track record of the public
> >schools would have succumbed decades ago. Will they ever wise up?
> >
>
> I would think it would be safe to say that most taxpayers feel the
> same way. We could all either do the right thing or we could all
> play the selfish game. If I were the selfish type, I would be
> calling for a $500 tax credit for myself since I have ***no***
> children and thus my tax dollars should not be paying for public
> schools. So why again should $500 be kicked back to parents who
> choose to send their children to private schools as opposed to
> kicking this money back to the taxpayers as a whole who are ponying
> up this cash for public schooling in the first place?
>
> -Scott
>
>


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