September 15, 2005

HoNDA is back

The Home Education Non Discrimination Act is back. This time is has more co-sponsors, and exists in the federal legislative system as HR3753 and S1691.

You can plug either of those bills into Thomas to get the full text.

My anti-HoNDA page from 2003 is still online.

I'll give it some thought before I advance a position, but on the surface I can't think of anything that has changed. At it's core, the bill is designed to get homeschoolers government benefits that are currently denied, or difficult to get. As a libertarian, I don't see any good coming from an effort to dip our hands into the federal pie. It may suck that we get screwed out of benefits because we choose a road less traveled, but an IRS auditor asking you to prove that your new computer is really a homeschooling expense would suck a lot more.

I hope Scott will be writing on this with a little more depth that the press release provides.

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Comments

Libertarian socialism. Will people ever learn that the two are mutually exclusive.

Posted by: Ron at September 15, 2005 07:47 PM

It's a far worse bill this year. Check out the final section on the military. HSLDA wrote themselves in as some kind of de facto homeschool accrediting agent. Shades of the home educrat.

Posted by: Daryl at September 17, 2005 07:50 AM

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