Bob Schaffer: “I appreciate the gentleman focusing on the superior quality of a tax credit proposal because it does focus on children…”

“I appreciate the gentleman focusing on the superior quality of a tax credit proposal because it does focus on children rather than institutions. The gentleman is correct. Again, if we go through the chart here of how a taxpayer dollar today makes its way through this long, elaborate process of bureaucracies to finally get down to a child down here, each one of these agencies has their own political constituency that is a part of it. If we focus down here at the last stage and that is at the school level, and maybe even back up one to the school district level, in Colorado there are 163 school districts in my State. That is just one State. If we look at other States and add them up, there are thousands of these organizations. They are political entities, political institutions. They are institutions that exist on paper and in law books and exist as corporations of sorts. These institutions today is really how we measure fairness, by comparing these institutions.”