“Yeah, public schools are expensive and mediocre, but we are all burdened with paying for them—not just those with children.”
That is a mere obvious fact. What makes it right, that “public” schools get to consider it their monopoly? Zero, zip, nada.
So what if “Jivanka and............” (whomever) may benefit from the tax deduction, so will tons of hardworking middle class parents that skimp on many things so that they can pay a tuition for their kid in private school ‘cause their public schools are so bad. You’d have us not let them have the tax deduction just ‘cause you want to play class-warfare and deny it to “Jivanka and...........”?
Sorry, the tax deduction does not look at income, and given that the expenditure of parents for K-12 school tuition spams the income range, why should it?
Right—the tax deduction has no means testing. Which means it is a massive break primarily for the wealthy who send their kids to private school.
The feds have no business being involved in this or anything else involving education at all.
Taxpayers in aggregate already pay for a free school tuition for all kids. If parents want another tuition, they can pay for it themselves—unless vouchers of some type are worked out on a state or local level.
The federal government has no business at all redistributing income from poor middle-class schmoes to Jivanka’s friends who spend hundreds of thousands a year on ridiculously expensive Manhattan private schools.