David Weldon: “This man right here is a taxpayer. We are taking a dollar out of his pocket to send 70 cents to this young man here, who…”

“This man right here is a taxpayer. We are taking a dollar out of his pocket to send 70 cents to this young man here, who may be his son, may be a kid in his neighborhood, may be his grandson or his granddaughter. What we have here is an alternative proposal to help education in the United States, where we take a dollar out of his pocket, through the form of a tax credit, and it goes right to the kids. That is what this is all about. One of the other things I wanted to say, and I think the gentleman from Michigan was alluding to this earlier, if we want to get parental involvement, if we want to get parents more engaged in the education process, this is a great way to do it, where they can actually see an impact, where it is not going through a big bureaucracy in Washington, a big bureaucracy in the State capital. It is going right from the parents to the children. I think it is a great way to reinvigorate parental involvement in our education. Every educator I have ever spoken to in all my years in the political arena, they all tell me that is the most important thing in the success of a child's education, after good quality teachers, it is parental involvement. It is number one. So this is a great proposal.”