Bob Schaffer: “some Members have tried to demonize tax credit proposals that we have seen in the States, and even our proposal in…”

“some Members have tried to demonize tax credit proposals that we have seen in the States, and even our proposal in Washington, as a voucher. The voucher, as we say, is the ``V'' word here in Washington that has such a connotation about it because there are some many organizations that exist to prevent that kind of a school choice mechanism from taking place. One of the ways that they have tried to characterize the tax credit provision proposal that we have is by referring to it as a voucher, but it is nothing like that. A voucher would essentially be effectively a taxpayer giving their cash to the people here in Washington, and the government here giving those dollars back through a voucher, kind of a check, that could only be spent the way that the government says it can be spent. We are not proposing that at all.”