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Thread #146662 Message #3397468
Posted By: JohnInKansas
30-Aug-12 - 07:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
Subject: RE: BS: US Congress Fallin' Apart... Really...
I'd suggest that a tax on political speakers, to let the politicians who work there pay for it, would be a more appropriate solution.**
In my state, yet another suit is at the State Supreme Court level protesting that funding for schools is insufficient to meet the requirements specifically stated in the State Constitution. The Court has already ruled TWICE that funding is unconstitutionally inadequate, and the Legislature has just ignored them, and continued to make further cuts. At many of our schools, the kids already have to pay to participate in unfunded and/or underfunded educational activities.
Or maybe they could just make the same percentage cuts in Legislators' pay as have been made for the teachers, and the repairs at least for our state building could be made quite quickly.
** Not really an appropriate solution, but surely less inappropriate.