Posted on 01/14/2006 2:02:48 PM PST by FairOpinion
Voters will decide in June whether they want to tax California's richest residents to send the state's 4-year-olds to preschool.
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson has certified the "Preschool for All'' initiative, declaring that its backers, led by actor-director Rob Reiner, had collected more than the 598,105 valid signatures needed to place the measure on the June 6 ballot.
The voluntary program would offer a full year of preschool to all California 4-year-olds, provided mostly by local school districts.
The initiative would boost the top tax rate by 1.7 percent on individuals earning more than $400,000 annually or married couples earning $800,000. That will raise $2.4 billion a year by 2010-11, when the measure would take full effect.
The prospect of a tax increase already has spurred opposition to the initiative.
"There are horrible flaws in this measure, both on the revenue and expenditure sides, said Jon Coupal, president of the anti-tax Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. "It would make public preschool available to those who could afford existing private preschools, rather than target efforts to the low and lower-middle class.''
Coupal and other opponents also worry that the measure could put private preschools out of business and leave the state in charge of all early childhood education.
"This would transfer the entire preschool industry to the same behemoth that's failed us in the K-12 schools,'' he said.
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Remember how the income tax started, collect 1% from the riches people, of which there were a few thousand. And look who is paying income taxes now.
Taxes in general are bad. Taxes to enlarge the scope of the already failed Public School monopoly are even worse.
Good ol' class envy, alive and well in the PRC.
---Coupal and other opponents also worry that the measure could put private preschools out of business and leave the state in charge of all early childhood education.
"This would transfer the entire preschool industry to the same behemoth that's failed us in the K-12 schools,'' he said.---
Public education has become the main powerbase of the Dims. It's no accident that it's become the number one item in the state budget.
Sorry, but 4-year olds have better things to do than go to school all day.
You can't beat the weather. One puts up with a lot for that. It's also a fun place to live, things have to get pretty bad, before people will move elsewhere.
Perverted women teachers have even younger students to date
GMTA! :)
I post posting basically the same thing in my post 9, while you were posting your post.
California is a great place, if we could just get some conservative government here.
Ain't gonna happen.
Screwed up my post, my fingers were typing on their own and I only read it after I posted it, but you know what I meant.
On Friday Bill Handel of KFI radio investigated some advertisements that claim that pre school children are less apt to become criminals.
Turns out that there's no link.
Somebody is trying to get the public thinking that preschools will curb crime.
Well, the voters in CA approved Prop. 98, which mandates huge spending on public schools and defeated the recent reform prop. 76, which was going to de-fang prop. 98, so in all likelihood, they will probably approve this one, after all, "it only taxes the rich" and "it's for the children".
I know of three wealthy Californians who have moved elsewhere due to the lunacy, two to Nevada, one to Florida. Can't beat the weather though.
---Can't beat the weather though.---
California is vastly overrated, including the weather. I'll take the intense Spring in northern Montana any day.
As soon as you hear someone state the above or state "we need to do what's best for the children", chances are whoever said that has run out of facts, logic and reasoning, and is now appealing to emotion.
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