http://www.factnet.org/headlines/give-away.htm
look at 4th period or dot. which states “Scientology would receive a special religious education tax deduction for its members. Scientologists can deduct tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars per year for their private religious education. This kind of religious education deduction appears not to be available to Catholics, Protestants, or Jews sending their children to private religious schools. The Tax Notes Journal published by the prestigious Tax Analysts’ organization, a nonprofit organization which provides information relating to U.S. tax laws, also noticed this most unusual inequity. According to Tax Analysts, The IRS’s Revenue Ruling 93-73 may give a tax break to the Church of Scientology which is not shared by other churches.”
Basically they get a tax exemption other religious institutes don’t receive.
As far as NY state law, there are ways around everything, I don’t know why you’re not getting it. If NYS wanted to give us money, there are a million way they can.
1) Change the law without a vote, not every law needs a vote.
2) Make 2 seperate schools one is religous one is not, I mentioned this before you chose to ignore it.
3) Call it “lunch” money or “computers” or pay 4k per child for transportation, again if NYS wanted to give the money they know how to do it.
4) Don’t give the schools money but give parents a break in taxes, for “private” schooling, nothing to do with religion.
The main point I was making, and still trying to make, is we don’t get money because they don’t want to give it, not because it’s illegal.