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“this tax credit proposal is on top of the existing Federal funding for education. It is more dollars without the control. So I thought the gentleman did such a good job of making that point, that these are extra dollars and they go without the control; that the only reason one could oppose it would be if one is a bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. and does not want Federal money of any kind going out to educate kids without those Federal dollars being controlled, and the control of them, and the dictate, saying they must spend it this way, coming from Washington, D.C. It seems to me, given that, that one has to either oppose additional funding for education or genuinely believe that the people back home in the local schools and school districts cannot spend the money unless they are told precisely how it must be spent by Federal bureaucrats. Unless one believes one of those two things, one ought to be supporting this kind of idea, because it means more dollars for education, more local control, it means more involvement by Americans in the funding of education in a very direct sense, where they want the accountability to them and they get the satisfaction of knowing their money is helping education. It is, as the gentleman says, a win-win proposal.”