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Mark Neumann: “In order to have a Washington-run education program, we are going to tax the people in Wisconsin one dollar, and…”

On the recordFebruary 26, 1998
In order to have a Washington-run education program, we are going to tax the people in Wisconsin one dollar, and, assuming they get a dollar back, they are only going to get 60 cents to help the kids in the classroom. The rest of that money is going to be spent on all of this paperwork that first applies for it, that gets reviewed by Washington, that gets corrected in the application. The money gets sent out, then they send a report verifying how they spent the money, Washington reviews that report and sends out some sort of administrator to enforce the report. That is costing 40 cents. It does not sound like this helps my kids at all. So the other 60 cents might get to the classroom.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin
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Discussing the inefficiencies of federal education funding during a floor speech.

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