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Pete Hoekstra: “That is it. That is what we are taking about, a $500 tax credit per individual, $1,000 for joint filers. That thousand…”

On the recordMay 1, 2002
That is it. That is what we are taking about, a $500 tax credit per individual, $1,000 for joint filers. That thousand dollars does not go through that bureaucracy any more; it goes directly from the taxpayer directly to Johnny's school. They get full benefit of that thousand dollars.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing a proposed tax credit for education funding.

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