Tax Credit Archives - Granite Grok

PAGE: No Federal Tax Credit for Independent Schools

March 20, 2026 Guy Page

One Big Beautiful Bill gives scholarship donors $1700 federal tax credit – but Dem majority doesn’t want it Vermonters will not be allowed to take a federal tax credit for contributing to a private/independent school scholarship program, if a House Ways & Means Committee miscellaneous tax bill introduced yesterday becomes law. H.933, titled “miscellaneous administrative … Read more

PAGE: Committee Chair Nixes Trump Private School Scholarship Credit

February 17, 2026 Guy Page

The leadership of the House Ways & Means Committee wants nothing to do with allowing Vermonters to access a One Big Beautiful Bill tax credit that would give them a dollar-for-dollar return on money contributed to private school scholarships. Ways and Means, the committee with oversight over all tax policy and legislation, on Wednesday discussed … Read more

Huge School Choice Win: SCOTUS Rules States Can’t Prohibit Scholarships to Religious Schools

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The NH Democrat Party has invested a great deal of blood, treasure, and BS, selling the idea that private education scholarships that create tax credits can’t go to religious schools. But now what? The US Supreme Court, ruling in a Montana case today, has declared that unconstitutional.

Education Tax Credits Survive Senate Committee

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

New Hampshire’s Education Tax Credits survive Senate Committee, unanimously. The New Hampshire Senate Ways & Means Committee held a hearing this morning on the Education Tax Credits. Well, they heard a bill to alter the program, that is. All five members of the Committee voted to ITL (kill) the bill. They are: Majority Leader Dan … Read more

State Senate Votes 13-11 to Table HB 370 – The Education Scholarship Credit Lives!!!

September 26, 2018April 18, 2013 Steve MacDonald

HB 370, the government-school monopoly, anti-education-choice-bill from the union-owned Democrat House, that would have repealed the education scholarship tax credit that passed last year, has been tabled by the New Hampshire State Senate. Tabling a bill is not legislative death but it is not unlike locking a prisoner up in a dungeon and forgetting they are there. Someone might wander down to take a peek, but more likely than not no one will ever visit it again.

Snidely whiplash - NEA loses as HB370 is tabled in NH Senate

There are several reasons for doing it, but more than likely this was to give cover for folks who would rather leave things as they are. As a way to end the repeal effort without actually having to vote pass or fail.. Or maybe we got lucky. I don’t much care what or why, just that it’s done, at least until Fred Lynn the ACLU, and the out of state wing-nuts who are planning to file suit at the bench of left-wing Judge John “I redefined domicile in time for the November Elections” Lewis….who will be asked to block the program on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state.

Today we are victorious. Tomorrow is another day.

NH State Senate To Vote On Education Choice Tomorrow

September 26, 2018April 17, 2013 Steve MacDonald

HB 370, the New Hampshire Democrats effort to punish the children of poor and lower income families, to keep them out of private schools by denying them an opportunity to get a scholarship, will be voted on tomorrow by the New Hampshire State Senate. Back in April of 2012 we reported on how 71% of New Hampshire’s public schools … Read more