Political Quotes

“And, Mr. Speaker, of critical importance, for those who say we are underfunding education at the Federal level already, we should not be doing any of these schemes, we should not be diverting dollars, we should not be reducing the amount of money that goes into education. By using this device, by saying you get a $250 tax credit, but only if you make a $500 contribution to education, that argument goes away. Because we have not reduced the amount of money going to education by $250; we have increased the amount of money going to education by $250 that would not have been there to begin with. And if $500 went to education, not $250, and in a sense we know that out of the $250, only 65 cents out of each dollar would get to the student, we have, as we said earlier, more than doubled the amount of cash going into education, which is why teachers across America, teachers' unions, school superintendents, school administrators, people who are professionals and care about resources for education ought to be excited about this idea.”