Scholarships are slavery?
By Brian Kirwin | Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | PolicyWould you equate slavery with a program of tax credits for contributions to scholarship programs?
No? Then you’re sane.
Yes? Then you’re Sen. Yvonne Miller, who thinks that giving students the ability to go to a school better than her Norfolk schools, which can’t seem to take a test without “irregularities” (we used to call it “cheating”), is the same thing as selling people into slavery.
Watch this psycho-Senator via this video on Tertium Quids, and please tell me how a scholarship is slavery. Heck, Sen. Yvonne Miller raked in some taxpayer bucks working for Norfolk State University for years (and voting for state funds for it….funny how no one cared), and WOW! Norfolk State students get financial aid scholarships! If scholarships are slavery, what would that make Yvonne when she worked for a University?
Of course, Yvonne Miller yet again tops the General Assembly in taking lobbyist gifts and travel reimbursements. A scholarship for a child? Yvonne calls it slavery. Lobbyists taking Yvonne to Florida? Priceless!
Someone obviously forgot to yell “fore” at one of the Senator’s golf tournaments. Is there a doctor in the house?
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Sen. Miller says she would support HB599 only after we fully fund public schools. Public schools in Norfolk spend $11,600 per student per year while St. Pius Catholic school charges $5,700 for non-parishioners. Based on these facts, one could argue that public schools are over 200% funded. I suspect Sen. Miller wants to continue the public school gravy train for the white-collar welfare recipients in the public school lobby. HB599 will give a $1,200 tax credit to individuals who contribute to scholarship foundations. The scholarships would be used to help poor families get their children into private/parochial schools of their choice. If the parent enrolled their child in St. Pius, for example, the state and local government would save $5,900 ($11,600 – $5,700). If the parent were to bear some of the expense, the savings to government would be even greater. And, obtw, Sen. Miller could take some or all that savings to further enrich her public school friends.
[...] you how much they’ve fund-raised, and from whom; it leads you to blogs that mention them (a blog called “Bearing Drift” called her a “psycho-Senator”; it even links to the Senator’s Twitter (on 2/28 she Twittered “Good morning everyone, [...]
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