Liberty is for me…

Missouri bureaucrats are against a tax-credit program that would give special needs students scholarships to attend better schools.

Here is their reasoning:

It would use public dollars for private purposes. - Independence Superintendent Jim Hinson

Using tax credits in this manner is not the right way to use public dollars. It concerns me that if this was approved, it could pave the wave for another such voucher scheme. - Rep. Paul LeVota

Huh.

How does that make any sense? Come Hinson and LeVota use better logic.

Let’s define tax-credit:

A tax credit reduces the amount of tax you owe unlike a tax deduction that only reduces the amount of your taxable income.

So, individual taxpayers can donate to a non-profit that in return gives scholarships to kids who have learning disabilities.

What a noble idea…giving kids a chance at a better education when their current school is failing them.

Oh, final note to Hinson and LeVota, you are using public dollars to pay for sick people at private hospitals and pay poor people to buy food at grocery stores, which are private too.

These two bureaucrats only care about the hungry and dying and not kids with autism.

What jerks!