That's how it works. If you live in a state, you pay for things you may not use.
Single or married, childless people pay for public schools. Yes, there are mentally ill, idiotic woke teachers with 30 pride symbols in their classrooms, but that's a separate discussion.
It is not a separate discussion. Toss in the grifting administers who support the woke and mentally deficient teachers. You are not voting for education of the kids, you are voting for indoctrination and funding the negative education of our children. Let the money follow the child and get the kids out of public schools unless the parent thinks that is the better choice. If over half of the teacher's in a school district send their kids to private school, that's sort of a tell. Last dem president that sent their kid to public school was Carter. Almost all dem presidents or dem nominee for president from FDR and on were private school educated. Sort of another tell.
Public schools suck, but it's no different than roads, fire stations, parks, buses, police etc. It's a public good. Yes, muchh of it is broken, but privatizing everything is just a game for parasitic "capitalists."
I didn't say privatize everything. I said give the public a choice on education. Frankly, the wealthy have already privatized public safety with gated communities, private security and body guards.
I am an anti-monopolistic capitalist who understands that there are public utilities and services that need to be funded through tax payer dollars.
The tax paying public should have the right to vote on a budget and it should be written in the state constitution that the budget be balanced to prior year revenues. This almost guarantees the avoidance of shortfalls.
We should have core services that are guaranteed funding.
Public Schools K-12 Core Curriculum/Extra Curricular activities
Community College 2 Year Associates or Skilled Labor Apprenticeship
Police/Fire
Subsidized Public Utliities
Transportation infrastructure incl Port of Seattle, Roads, Bridges and a subsidized ferry system
Public Parks
The following should be 100% usership funded:
Bike lanes
Stadium/Entertainment Venues
Express/HOV Lane expansion
Light Rail
One of the biggest drivers of spending is the growth in government employment itself. Inslee added 10,000 head counts to the rolls in his 10 years in office and big ticket items like DEI initiatives plus an army of part time legislators all earning 6 figures are huge contributors, to say nothing of the absolute black hole of homelessness and drug addiction “services” where the potential for fraud and abuse is through the roof and the results have been nothing but more homelessness and drug addiction. When you throw pigeon feed out, more pigeons seem to show up.
WA has a spending problem. It has a mission problem. It does NOT have a revenue problem and it’s time to get the budget committee and some accountants locked in a policy think tank where they are given a 40b budget and told to make it work.
Our current path is totally untenable and “taxing the rich” isn’t the answer. I guess they learned that to an extent because now it’s “let’s just tax the fuck out of everyone.” I hate these people with every fiber of my being.
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Education and homeless funding is just code for money laundering. Fuck that
That's how it works. If you live in a state, you pay for things you may not use.
Single or married, childless people pay for public schools. Yes, there are mentally ill, idiotic woke teachers with 30 pride symbols in their classrooms, but that's a separate discussion.
but no one wants to pay for public transportation that is not safe to use.
Do you really think people would be as against this stuff if it was clean, safe, useful for many? Some would but not most.
It is not a separate discussion. Toss in the grifting administers who support the woke and mentally deficient teachers. You are not voting for education of the kids, you are voting for indoctrination and funding the negative education of our children. Let the money follow the child and get the kids out of public schools unless the parent thinks that is the better choice. If over half of the teacher's in a school district send their kids to private school, that's sort of a tell. Last dem president that sent their kid to public school was Carter. Almost all dem presidents or dem nominee for president from FDR and on were private school educated. Sort of another tell.
Why do you hate a Land Trust?
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That can be remedied, but woke politicians don't want to enforce fares or get the riff raff off buses.
Vanilla sucks
Public schools suck, but it's no different than roads, fire stations, parks, buses, police etc. It's a public good. Yes, muchh of it is broken, but privatizing everything is just a game for parasitic "capitalists."
I didn't say privatize everything. I said give the public a choice on education. Frankly, the wealthy have already privatized public safety with gated communities, private security and body guards.
I’m not advocating privatizing everything.
I am an anti-monopolistic capitalist who understands that there are public utilities and services that need to be funded through tax payer dollars.
The tax paying public should have the right to vote on a budget and it should be written in the state constitution that the budget be balanced to prior year revenues. This almost guarantees the avoidance of shortfalls.
We should have core services that are guaranteed funding.
The following should be 100% usership funded:
One of the biggest drivers of spending is the growth in government employment itself. Inslee added 10,000 head counts to the rolls in his 10 years in office and big ticket items like DEI initiatives plus an army of part time legislators all earning 6 figures are huge contributors, to say nothing of the absolute black hole of homelessness and drug addiction “services” where the potential for fraud and abuse is through the roof and the results have been nothing but more homelessness and drug addiction. When you throw pigeon feed out, more pigeons seem to show up.
WA has a spending problem. It has a mission problem. It does NOT have a revenue problem and it’s time to get the budget committee and some accountants locked in a policy think tank where they are given a 40b budget and told to make it work.
Our current path is totally untenable and “taxing the rich” isn’t the answer. I guess they learned that to an extent because now it’s “let’s just tax the fuck out of everyone.” I hate these people with every fiber of my being.
You didn't, but it's been going on. Very insidious. The local bus system was affiliated with some Spanish company.
What local bus system. Definitely not a big blue city
bus systemgovernment employment grift and crony capitalism supply system.Public schools are shit and should be defunded.
Vouchers or tax rebates to choose how to educate your children. That's it.
If you think education is some unique service that defies regular economics you need to make that case. Good luck.
Bellevue Public Schools are a joke.
My 8rh grader is in honors Langauge arts.
Honors LA is apparently for kids who can speak English. Regular LA is for all of the HB-1 kids. This is fucking ridiculous.