No thank you uncle Sam

Homeschoolers Don't want tax credits.... at least not the ones I know anyway.

There's a movement in Congress to give teachers a tax credit. The break would include parents who home-school, as well.

Under his plan, all teachers would receive a $1,000 tax credit and would be able to deduct up to $2,000 — up from the current $250 — off their taxes for any "in class" purchases

Such bills however leave homeschoolers suspicious of giving the government a foot in the door to future homeschooler regulation.

as one homeschool mom stated : "I have my reservations about this. I can only imagine what type of regulations this would put on homeschooling families.

What baffles me the most is the fact that HSLDA, the largest legal protector of homeschooling is pushing HARD for such credits

http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200308190.asp

yet every homeschooler who has homeschooled for 2 years or more is vehemently against it. Are they all crying wolf?

Probably not....  We have already seen the beginnings of such control through the introduction of government funded e-schools that recruit both homeschoolers and previously public schooled children.

Such schools are granted charters by local school districts or other authorized agencies. They are funded by tax money which is funneled through the chartering agency to corporations that make a profit by selling curriculums and/or computers and software and/or technical support. Public e-schools are regulated by the state. They must comply with government standards in education such as those in Goals 2000, administer state-mandated standardized tests, and ensure that their students comply with compulsory school attendance laws.

Public e-schools would threaten our homeschooling freedoms. As homeschoolers, we are perceived as a threat by the educational establishment, one of the strongest power centers in our society. To maintain our freedoms, we must counter continual attempts to increase government regulation of homeschooling and get homeschoolers under the control of the public school system. Public e-schools would provide yet another opportunity. They would be seen as homeschools. The general public's understanding of homeschooling would change, and the distinction between government regulated public schools and independent private homeschools would be blurred. There would be great pressure to apply the regulations that public e-schools are under (because they are public schools and receive tax money) to all homeschoolers.