The senate just voted for another corporate tax cut. It’s $250m per year.
Those funds would otherwise have gone mainly to public education.
I bet you can tell from this photo how I voted.
Those funds would otherwise have gone mainly to public education.
I bet you can tell from this photo how I voted.
For that amount, we could double Pre-K funding and reach another 30,000 kids each year.
And still have $100m left over.
Which would be a better use?
And still have $100m left over.
Which would be a better use?
These guys didn’t even address the fact that they aren’t making up the revenue. Just high-fives all around.
Worse: We got an absolutely wild speech about how this would “raise revenue” because of ... wait for it ... trickle down economics.
Worse: We got an absolutely wild speech about how this would “raise revenue” because of ... wait for it ... trickle down economics.
Their next move is to try to convince voters that public education has always been their top priority.
Totally up to you whether you buy that or not, but from where I’m sitting I don’t know how you could undercut educators and schools any more than they just did.
Totally up to you whether you buy that or not, but from where I’m sitting I don’t know how you could undercut educators and schools any more than they just did.
For that amount of money we could:
Double the pay raise they want for teachers AND
Double Pre-K funding AND
Put $100m into desperately needed school construction to ease overcrowding AND
Still do a $50m corporate tax cut.
Double the pay raise they want for teachers AND
Double Pre-K funding AND
Put $100m into desperately needed school construction to ease overcrowding AND
Still do a $50m corporate tax cut.
