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Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Corrupt Tuition Tax Credit Scheme

Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Corrupt Tuition Tax Credit Scheme

Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Corrupt Tuition Tax Credit Scheme

by KEVIN CAREY on APRIL 8, 2011

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Since I’ve blogged about it before, it’s worth noting that, sadly but predictably, the United State Supreme Courtupheld the constitutionality of Arizona’s notoriously corruptprivate school tuition tax credit scheme on a technicality, holding that the plaintiffs objecting to the program–whereby people get a dollar-for-dollar tax credit up to $500 for “donations” to private and in many cases religious schools which then provide an equivalent “scholarship” to a neighbor who then provides a reciprocal tax credit for an identical “scholarship” for the original donor’s kid, with “non-profit” middleman organizations founded by the very same legislators who passed the legislation in the first place raking off hundreds of thousands of