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Originally Posted by MattyC
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.
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The thing is we probably agree that teachers shouldn't be spending their own money to run their classrooms. So, assuming that, this policy just encourages them to do it, and if they aren't spending that $1000 to actually increase their spending that we would rather the, not do. Its counter-productive in that sense.