Political Quotes

“Remember, Mr. Speaker, this is for a very narrow purpose. This is for scholarship funds to assist kids to go to a private school, a private or parochial school. Just imagine what happens now when we expand this to a tax credit and they get a tax benefit. These are all people who are willing to pay more money into education than what they do today; and if we expand it, think of all of the people that would be willing to pay into their local public schools, to their private, to the scholarship funds, for tutoring, and those are all people who are willingly today paying more to improve education. That chart would be fully red if we would allow tax credits to go to public education, because there are strong constituencies and supporters of public education around the country that, with a tax credit, would be really motivated to say, I am going to help my local school, and this is going to be the thing that is going to push me over.”