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Show & Page 1975 December Broad Ax AIMED Ray ANT STUDENTS" The MJ _ ~ ‘LEGISLATION FINANCES who attend colleges and universities, but also to students who attend elementary secondary and religious and private schools, those set up in the backlash integration and busing. In introducing his bill, including against the racial Senator charged that public education was rapidly developing into a “‘monopoly”’ and attacked those who would “‘strip parents of all control over schooling and who would use the educa- tional system as an instrument to impose their own But for all the bills, sponsors and rhetOric, the prospects for any education tax credit or deduction are considered bleak. One reason is the amount of money involved. With the large number of students presently enrolled in schools across the country, tax breaks for education could provide ‘‘a to substitute a state enforced very substantial for the diversity assured through one House values and conformity it’s not who controls the means of production, but who controls the means of education.” tion is how much private choice.” drain’’ on budget aide. tax revenues, said ‘‘A major considera- money can be lost,” he said. some Ways and Means Committee members, A Buckley aide characterized the bill as a vehicle to initiate debate and to raise ques- tions about the source of education. Freedom of choice in education is so important, the aide said, that it is getting to the point ‘‘where who would be the first to consider any tax breaks for students feel the government shouldn’t get into subsidies of education through the tax system the budget aide said. He added that the Ford administration is opposed to this kind of measure. |
