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.
No, you’re wrong.
You provided several “solutions” that are unworkable because they are illegal, politically or religiously impossible or just plain deceitful.
- You proposed that the frum community flood the public schools to force a change in the law. I showed that that was just not going to happen.
- You proposed that we change the Constitution without a vote. Illegal.
- You proposed that yeshivas separate into two schools. No one’s stopping them, but if the “secular school” is owned by a religious institution, then the same problem remains.
- You proposed that yeshivas get the money under false pretenses. Illegal.
You proposed that the state give tax credits for private school. Politically difficult in good times; near impossible when the state is broke.
- You proposed that we be given federal tax credits as the Scientologists are given. I’m not convinced that they are given these credits (I’ve quoted the relevant IRS Revenue Rulings above). Even the report you quoted says that they may get these credits, not that they are actually receiving them. First please show how (based on IRS Revenue Ruling 93-73, which *you* first quoted) Scientologists get these credits before complaining that no one else gets them first.
The Wolf