How the heck did something so dumb end up on the Alabama ballot? I'm paying out the nose for my son's education, and I'm considered too rich to get any financial help. Not that I expect it.
It is a backdoor sneaky tax move. Ammendment 2 started out as a way you remove some segregationist language from the constitution. Nobody would have objected to that. Then someone added removing the language "No one is guaranteed an education at public expense". This would permit equity funding lawsuits to be won by the plaintiff putting school taxes in the hands of judges. In Alabama tax increases require public vote, we would lose that on education issue, if # 2 passes. Free College tuition would follow.
It's not true. The amendment is deleting language that says nothing in the Alabama Constitution shall be read to create or recognize any right to education or training at public expense. It doesn't create language to guarantee that right. Our REPUBLICAN Governor Bob Riley (a very good man) supports the amendment, which also erases outdated segregationist language from the Constitution. He feels that it will cast Alabama in a better light for business.
The amendment has received a lot of negative publicity thanks to Roy Moore.