OPINION — For me, Sen. Mark Kelly’s attempt to repeal the federal tuition tax credit for private schools is an exquisite example of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
In the big, but not beautiful, GOP reconciliation bill, there was a provision offering a $1,700 tax credit for contributions to a nonprofit that offers scholarships to K-12 private schools. This was another instance of the MAGA right abandoning traditional conservative principles, in this case for both education and tax policy.
The traditional conservative position is that K-12 education should be exclusively a state and local responsibility. The extent to which school choice is available, and how it is provided, is no business of the federal government.
