Maginnis: Opening the back door to vouchers- March 19, 2008
The Town Talk
John Maginnis
In his lightning-round second special session, completed last week in the bare-minimum five days, Gov. Bobby Jindal claims the Legislature gave him everything he wanted. Actually, he got more than he asked for in one important area, almost more than he could afford.
The surprise item in his call for the recent session, dominated by surplus spending and business tax cuts, was a proposal to allow parents of private and parochial school students to deduct half of the tuition from their state income taxes, up to a $5,000 deduction per child. The same plan passed last year in a bill by Sen. Rob Marionneaux, D-Livonia, but then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a former public schoolteacher, spiked it with her veto pen.
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