“Not restricted for low income people”

by David Safier
Steve Farley reporting from the special session to create a new $5 million corporate tuition tax credit:

We did hear a lot of rhetoric about how private school choice is going to help everybody, if we can only unleash the free market to serve parents' needs. More to the point, we heard that this new voucher program is not restricted for low income people. Yes, millionaire parents will be able to get their children's private school tuition paid for by you and me if this bill passes.

The current corporate tuition tax credit limits the scholarships to children of families whose income is no more than 185% of the reduced lunch cutoff — unlike the individual tax credit law, which has no means testing. Sounds like the new one gets rid of that troublesome limitation. It's so wrong to discriminate against people based on race, religion, gender or "financial affiliation."

By the way, if someone knows the upper limit of income for a child to qualify for reduced lunch, and also the income that puts a family at the poverty level, will you put the figures in a comment? If there's a link I can use to verify the numbers, that's even better. Thanks in advance.


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