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Originally Posted by Slava
OK, fair enough, but there are a lot of civil servants in a lot of industries who are likely in a similar position. Why else would it matter to teachers specifically?
I've been on record, seemingly forever, saying that these boutique tax credits are stupid and misguided. This one is no different than the volunteer fire fighter credit from a few years ago, IMO. If the governments want to reduce the tax burden, just lower taxes. Don't get all cute about it, and make people save $1000 worth of receipts for the better part of a decade. Just reduce the tax bill for everyone and call it a day.
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Yeah I don't disagree. When looking at the teacher's situation specifically, I think the idea is that if you just plain lower taxes, yes we all have more income, but the teacher is still spending part of their income on the education of the kids, which isn't really their responsibility (outside of specialty things), and there is really no incentive to use any of that extra tax money for this purpose either, if you're a teacher that doesn't need to/doesn't care enough to. I would rather just see the taxes that would be allotted to this credit go straight to improving education overall, rather than leaving it in the teachers hands (although I'm sure there are teachers here who would argue that it's easier for them to purchase what they need than to lobby to the board to have something instituted).
Personally, I'd much rather have this type of a credit going to useful things like education than pretty much any other sector, but that's my own view.