Maybe the brainos in Olympia got the message. ?? This thing has been floated before and didn't find much support. This time it made it onto the local ballot ... what's so stinking about it is that, as I understand it (living in King County but not Seattle proper, I didn't see the text of the proposition), these were not regular funds being stripped away from children's education if the tax failed. I think someone wrote about it earlier in the thread that it was for private day care people who didn't want to raise their fees so they tried to hit the coffee drinkers. Since the targeted benefitters are not a regular group of school kids, it would seem more difficult for the brainos in Olympia to pass a tax for the whole state for something already rejected in the bean bed of coffee lust. By the way, just want to say, once again, that I love your screen name. Every time I read it, it makes me smile.