In January, Newt Gingrich proposed a tax credit for the poorest Americans to purchase laptop computers, forgetting for the moment that the poorest Americans do not pay taxes and thus a credit does them no good. In this case, his heart may be in the right place, even if he later called the idea "nutty." Those who like to make prognostications say that we all need to have access to computers and to the network that will make us productive. That's not presently possible for a good portion of the poor and minority children in our country.
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