Kansas Lawmaker Wants to Pay More to Churchgoing, Home-Schooling Foster Parents
Tax breaks for puritan parents that also rob our public schools of funds are what you get when you elect zealots to office.
A Kansas lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would pay foster parents “substantially” more public money if they are a churchgoing “husband and wife team” who do not smoke or drink, do not send the child to public schools, and one of whom stays at home.
State Sen. Forrest Knox, R-Altoona, who introduced Senate Bill 158 on Tuesday, wants to promote foster parents who are like a “Leave it to Beaver” family, The Associated Press reported.
Senate Bill 158 creates a “special category” known as licensed CARE families, who would receive “substantially higher” pay from the state than foster families deemed unacceptable to the CARE program.
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