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(182,826 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)say it over and over and over.
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(82,849 posts)Teachers, underpaid and working in underfunded schools, often resort to buying supplies for their students and classrooms out of their own pocket. On average, it's several hundred dollars a year, with a positive correlation between the poverty of a district and the amount of teacher outlay (that is, the poorer the school the more supplies teachers buy). Even though the income deduction is capped (I think it's at a paltry $250, or the price of a fancy business dinner or two), and to get it, the teacher has to itemize deductions, Republicans want to do away with it entirely, while continuing to cut school funding.
Plain and simple, it's bullshit. And if you're a Republican voter who thinks this is just fine so that wealthy people can get another tax break to sop up more money they don't need and can't spend, then there's something wrong with the way your brain works.