[Son House]

higher income tax on the state's highest income earners and said the money should be used to ease the budget crunch at local schools.

How about Parents take responsibility to "ease the budget crunch at local schools"? Parents should plan to have their children educated and not rely on the state, especially given the state's "descent to the bottom", as Dayton calls it

[meyer]

How about Parents take responsibility to "ease the budget crunch at local schools"?

Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, parents and ONLY parents ought to be paying for the education of their children anyway. I have no kids in school. Why the heck am I paying taxes to support them?