Supreme Court ruling forces taxpayers to pay for private religious schools.

Post by ViViDboarder » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 2:47 AM UTC

SamReidHughes wrote: post #4

silasrude wrote: post #3

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Which boils down to my tax dollars being used to fund private religious schools. I believe in separation of church and state. My tax dollars should in no way be funding proselytizing and indoctrination

They’re giving parents who don’t send their kids to public school a tax credit. This prohibits discriminating against parents for how they want to raise their children.

That‘s nonsense. Those parents have exactly the same access to public schools as the rest of the public. If they decide to pay for another school, that’s their choice. I shouldn’t expect them to pay for my luxury services.

Post by thomastjeffery » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 11:34 PM UTC

OldHand2018 wrote: post #9

I live in a state that Fox News calls a liberal hellhole and for as long as I can remember people have been able to take an income tax deduction on tuition payments to private schools, including religious schools. Money is fungible, so the only real difference is that now you can take a tax credit for paying for someone else's kid. But even then, the 2018 federal tax law allowed fully deductible contributions to 529…

Because living in most states as a non-Christan or atheist is living as a minority. This minority group does not have enough influence to convince their representatives to oppose such legislation.

The first amendment is only necessary protection for minority rights. What is freedom of religion if you can't have freedom from religion?

I live in Utah, where The Corporation for the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints (the mainstream Mormon Church) has an overtly significant voice in politics and media. Its private university Brigham Young University likely benefits significantly from this situation, which is totally unnecessary, since the church itself has plenty of funding available, including a 501c3 tax-exempt $124 billion+ liquid investment account built from tithing donations in excess if $7 billion per year.

I don't want to see a penny of my country or state's tax dollars going to a university named after a man who, as a self-proclaimed prophet of God, taught that interracial marriage is to be punished by death on the spot, and does not allow students to be in same-sex relationships, or leave their religion before graduation.

I don't see this as an attempt to create outrage, but to express that which already exists.

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