Bob Schaffer: “It is an important distinction to make, an important point that I think the House needs to keep in mind as this debate…”

“It is an important distinction to make, an important point that I think the House needs to keep in mind as this debate moves forward and the legislation eventually comes to the floor, that the bureaucratic model that exists today, it is a problem and it ought to be fixed, I think maybe someday it ought to be replaced, but that is not what this tax credit proposal does. It instead sets up a different mechanism to fund education and to provide this massive cash infusion in schools in addition to that bureaucratic model. It does so not by changing the education laws or dealing with redistributing the education money that is spent currently or even disrupting the scheduled increases in funding for the bureaucratic model. That is going to continue on unimpeded, unimpaired because, as you mentioned, there are so many people here in Washington who like that and support it. But what we are suggesting is that we can, in tandem through the Tax Code, make the necessary changes so that it becomes advantageous for Americans to work hard, to donate their cash to America's schoolchildren, to do it directly and bypass the bureaucratic model altogether. If you need a visual of how tax credits work, this is it right here.”