A Bill Introduced In North Carolina To Provide $2500/yr Income Tax Credit To Homeschooling Families

[Joel thakkar]

Bill Text Here : http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/HTML/H144v1.html

Bill Name : Homeschool Education Income Tax Credit

Sponsors: Representatives Pittman, Ford, Malone, and Schaffer

Their Argument : NC Spends about $9000 per year per student. Thus, they save NC money by not enrolling their children in NC Public Schools.

[exboyfil]

1. So can I get a credit for the DoD dollars

spent not protecting me?

[Joel thakkar]

3. +1 n/t

[PA Democrat]

2. How about childless couples?

How about parents who send their kids to private schools?

Sorry, I don't think this is a good idea.

[SheilaT]

4. I recall this argument being used decades ago by

supporters of parochial schools. They'd claim a lot of money was saved by their kids not attending the public schools.

All of us should be supporting public schools. At any given time only a minority of people have children in school, but we all benefit from them. If you want to home-school your kids or send them to a private or parochial school that's fine. But you -- just like every other taxpayer -- are still obligated to support the public schools.

(Climbing back down from soap box.)

[Lane1340]

5. North Carolina has gone nuts

The GOP in that state is a special kind of looney, between this bill, a bill requiring a 2 yr wait on divorce, and a bill declaring war on nipples... http://aattp.org/north-carolina-teapublicans-declare-war-on-female-nipples/