[Mon]

only if it doesn't come out of their own pockets. I have a mocha a few times a week. If I can afford $3.00 to $4.00 a cup I sure can afford another 10 cents.

[over3Owithabrain]

only if it doesn't come out of their own pockets. I have a mocha a few times a week. If I can afford $3.00 to $4.00 a cup I sure can afford another 10 cents.

Then go ahead and donate an extra dime every time you have a cup. But don't have the government force everyone else to do it.

[Steve_Seattle]

"only if it doesn't come out of their own pockets. I have a mocha a few times a week. If I can afford $3.00 to $4.00 a cup I sure can afford another 10 cents."

The voters were intelligent enough to realize that if this early-childhood program is a good idea, it should be funded by the public as a whole, not fobbed off onto a group (yuppie latte drinkers) against whom the initiative's sponsors were trying to generate resentment and envy. In Seattle, this was a rare defeat for political correctness.