Amendment 23 Discussion
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Thought this was a priceless headline/comment from The Gadflyer. Onto the question that I hope will foster some debate.
State Amendment 23 states that K-12 spending should increase inflation plus 1% every year. It is part of the budget discussion in the TABOR issue. I certainly am an advocate of increasing our education expenditure...but I'm not quite sure the benefit of this specific amendment. I could see an amendment saying at minimum it needs to stay the same plus inflation and growth being useful, but the 1% stipulation could get out of control down the road. I guess my question is, why are Democrats so adamant about not changing Amendment 23 when it has this perhaps questionable aspect to it? Sell me on it.
posted by Erik Bondurant @ 9:38 AM
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Not sure on the amendment, but the inherent laziness of assigning a formula to social expenditures is one more result of the legislative process being broken by radical religionists.
Education spending should be doubled now - before we completely lose a generation of kids to incompetence - and I really am worried about my own kids here: too much testing, too little class time will lead to inferior students/thinkers/inventors compared to other nations' student populations.
20 years from now we're going to wonder what hit us.
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