Romney Calls For Tax Breaks For Homeschoolers

This just in from RTTNews.com11/8/2007 9:23:06 AM Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney proposed Wednesday that parents who homeschool their children should be eligible for a tax break to help offset parents’ expenses for teaching their children at home.
Why? Public schools are open to all citizens; the homeschoolers pay the taxes that support public schools. Romney, in his call for tax breaks, is not specific about the nature of the taxes that would go into the tax-break pot. Is he calling for a federal tax break or what? This is problematic in that public schools are supported from taxes collected at the state and/or local levels of government.
If Romney means a federal tax cut if follows that the loss in federal tax revenues attributed to his proposal means an additional burden on the remainder of the taxed population. But more importantly, Romney is asking that hardworking federal tax payers pay homeschoolers.
Yes, the public school systems across America are at best awful and parents want the best education for their children. However; it is unfortunate that those who can afford to remain in the household and educate their children are part of the population that tends to ”cut and run” from public schools. Just as this same group ran from troubled urban areas, these parents run from the public schools problem.
It is high time that this segment, as well as all of America, stop running from the problem, stop waiting for someelse to solve the problem and get engaged. If these homeschooling parents have the time required to educate their children in the home, then there can be little question that they have time to get seriously engaged in improving the state of public education.
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the brotherman