Shutting down the Department of Education and returning control of the education dollar to the American people is the key to improving education. The best way to put the people in charge of education is by shutting down all unconstitutional bureaucracies, repealing the Sixteenth Amendment, and ending the Federal Reserve’s money monopoly.
Since Congress is unlikely to restore constitutional, limited government in the near future, supporters of quality education must advance policies aimed at giving Americans control over the education dollar so they can seek alternatives to the federally-controlled system. This is why I have always supported education tax credits and deductions.
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When I was in Congress, I introduced legislation providing tax credits for contributions to education scholarship funds. These funds provide K-12 scholarships to low-income-family students whose parents cannot afford private schools. These scholarship funds allow these children to escape government schools that have been ruined by federal “reforms” like No Child Left Behind and Common Core, as well as mandates such as the ones dictating what can be served in school cafeterias.
Including education scholarship tax credits in the tax reform bill currently before Congress would be a major step toward creating a free market in education. In a free market, parents could select the type of education that best suits the unique needs of their children, instead of the demands of politicians and bureaucrats. Schools could compete on the basis of academics, extracurricular activities, and even lunch menus. Those with unique and innovative education ideas would be free to establish schools and prove their models’ superiority.
Moving to a free-market education system would increase the amount of money spent on educating children. This is because in a free market resources would not be siphoned away from the classroom to support a bloated federal bureaucracy and schools would not be force to waste valuable resources proving they are complying with federal regulations.
By increasing competition, education scholarship tax credits encourage government-run schools to improve. The threat of losing more students may even cause local school boards and state boards of education to resist federal mandates. Thus, education scholarship tax credits can improve the education of all children.
Some libertarians oppose education scholarship tax credits on the grounds that they are a form of government “subsidy.” Since education tax credits allow people to use their own money to support education, this claim only makes sense if one believes that all income is owned by the government, so any income not taxed away is a gift from government. This is a strange position for a libertarian to take!
Other critics say that tax breaks for education (or any other item) distort the market. They also claim that these tax breaks cause income taxes to be higher than they would be without these credits. These critics may have a point, but the answer is to force Congress to cut spending and reduce or eliminate all taxes, not to take away existing tax breaks.
Almost all Americans agree that education should be generously funded. The only question is who should control the education dollar — the federal government or the people. Anyone looking for the answer need only consider how American education has declined as the federal government’s role has increased. Education scholarship tax credits are an important step toward restoring control of education to the American people and providing a quality education to children from low-income families. Congress should help American children and include education scholarship tax credits in the tax reform bill.
Most people can’t imagine not having a public school system like the one we have. By the same logic, 90% of clothing and food should be “free” from government-run dispensaries.
The current public school system is nothing more than a baby sitting service.
Vouchers would be great – to replace public education. Except the niggers would still be as dumb as a sack of hammers.
Vouchers maintain the current violence-based and socialist funding mechanism, along with maintaining the toxic government tie to education. NO school taking them would be free of government meddling. They are more of a back door way to DESTROY private education than a way to undermine the worthless government monopoly. And expensive schools will simply increase their tuition costs the exact amount of any voucher to maintain their ability to continue their selective enrollment process (and who could blame them?).
As long as the Commie SCOTUS doesn’t require private schools take either the government money or any preferred race of students, the private schools would continue to excel.
Love me some Ron Paul.
While I have always supported Ron Paul (including begrudgingly joining the republican party to help out his two campaigns), I am always torn with his constant suggestions of “tax credits” for things like education and medical expenses (including insurance). While the concept of keeping money from the worthless and wasteful government is ALWAYS a good thing, NOTHING comes without strings. The minute someone is getting a tax break for something, some worthless government POS will want to insure that ONLY certain “qualified” recipients are allowed. This will ultimately mean strict restrictions on curricula, teacher qualifications, maybe even union participation. We already see this crap in the medical environment where Heath Savings/Spending Accounts provide a tax free method of saving for expenses, but ONLY THOSE THE GOVERNMENT APPROVES OF. So vitamins, gym memberships, cooking classes and the like are NOT paid for, but bigPharma’s toxic potions, surgeries, vaccines, and the like most certainly are. Ron is right on the money that the ONLY way to fix the problem is to end the Income Tax, abolish the Federal Reserve, restore sound money, and restore free choice and free markets to our nation. Tax credits (as well as vouchers), simply retain the toxic government tie to the educational process and will ultimately destroy any private sector alternative that bends over to “qualify.”
Everything has gotten too big, too encompassing, too much interlock.
We have allowed our society to become polluted in the most awful ways: huge divorce rate / baby daddies / unfettered immigration – where some school districts have 20 languages (no shit), and politicians who import refugees and their families, from turd world countries, and celebrate diversity.
Then we print money, to give these people ‘entitlements’.
Us decent people can’t do anything except standby and watch our own demise.
It has become a toxic swamp.
For the person who downvoted me, please tell me of a tax credit, government handout, or any government-managed program in which rules, regulations, etc. are NOT part of the program? Please tell me which government program allows total and complete freedom of choice once even a penny of so-called “taxpayer money” or “tax credits” is involved. Please. I would like to know. I understand the frustration of having one’s monies stolen to waste on government day prisons passing as schools. My parents shelled out for private schools for me all the way along in my education in addition to the school taxes they were forced to pay. I am simply trying to point out the TRUTH of having anything be tax deductible and the consequences to freedom it will bring.
Want to deduct your child? Better make sure he/she has a Social Security Number.
Want to use your VA loan for a house? Your seller better be prepared to bend over for you to make it work.
Want to use your VA benefits to go to school? Better be a school that WE approve of.
Want to use money you set aside pre-tax for medical expenses? Fine, but ONLY if it is on OUR approved list.
Get the point?
Ron, while you seem to hold our a small reserve of hope that any individuals in the Federal Bureaucracy that is the department of education have any integrity regarding their mission, I have none. When you look for fat bloated whores in education, you go to the highly paid Administrators in the hundreds of districts paid by these big farming corporations to keep the people dumb enough to let them poison their food and livestock.
So, no. The Scholarship programs soon become as corrupt as the people who discover skin in the game. Any kind of program meant to give individuality a hands-up is prime target for being racist if it isn’t one size fits all (color).
Exactly the point I was trying to make. Government strings are always used to hang the citizen.