no worries...the lottery has the schools covered (rolling eyes)
Sixty-one percent opposed extending the sales tax increase, which expires in July.
Good news for long-suffering California taxpayers!
Cut aide to illegals .
With the savings increase spending on schools and roads.
We will still have e surplus!
This poll is a crock. A State Legislative Analyst Office report indicated that if funding mandates for K-12 schools were deregulated further that $7.4 billion in expenses could be avoided. A key question the poll should have asked is “would you prefer raising taxes or the legislature deregulating school funding mandates at no expense to local taxpayers?”
A first round of deregulating funding mandates of $4.5 billion in 2009 saved K-12 school districts from having to lay off core teachers. If the legislature would authorize another round of deregulation of “categorical” jobs programs $7.4 billion in costs could be avoided and again no core teachers would have to be laid off.
If a rich or poor school district votes to raise school parcel taxes the taxpayers could end up being double duped by having to pay more taxes while the school district would have lower funding mandates and could reap a double windfall.
It is interesting that “taxes on us” get voted down, no matter how small. A few years ago a small but uniformly applied phone tax was voted down (less than a $5 a month) but taxes on the rich passed. Voters only want to tax someone else.
Tax the rich schemes pass in the polls, as the vast majority of Californians think they will never be impacted by tax increases on the rich.
Don’t cut operating costs increase taxes,yep that sounds like a progressive system.Pure california all right.
This is silly. How many new schools are they going to need to build and staff?
I am so looking forward to the instantaneous implosion - POOF! - of California..... /s =.=
Where is the divide between wealthy and not wealthy?
Any commentator or politician who fails to note the exact minimum income requirement to be wealthy should be caned. Ten strokes first offence.
This article appears to me as more Leftist Socialist Democrat sleight of hand to create an optimistic attitude in the public of tax increases. A common tactic, strategy of the Left is to plant such notions.
In this case the teachers, but it’s actually the teacher’s union(s) that donate heavily to the Democrat Party that benefit from the sleight of hand.
And we don't need hydro-electric dams or nuclear plants either!!!
Elves! Yes, Elves with magic wands will give us all the power we need. Like in Harry Potter!!! And they will pay for brazellian dollar pensions for our public employees!!! And our schools are great!!!!
And anal sex is healthy!!!
We have nothing to fear, so shut up you narrow-minded conservative bigots!!!