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In response to businesses fleeing California, LG Newsone
quipped that businesses need to be more responsive. Now today I got this notice informing me that the “legislature
passed and the Governor signed legislation to require some property owners to
pay a fee for state fire prevention in their areas..”
Makes sense doesn’t it?
Particularly if there is symmetry.
For example, I have been paying property taxes for over 20
years, but have not had my children attend public schools in that period – does
that mean I get a refund?
What about parents who send their children to private
schools, or better yet home-school their children? Do they get a tax break.
Of course note. Worse. The California Teachers Association as tried
to criminalize home-school teachers!
Now, if you think ObamTax is bad, you ain’t seen nothin’
yet. Forget the special fire prevention
tax or any other special tax, or even
the 63% voter-approved local tax
measures on the June 5, 2012 California primary ballot.
California
residents face BrownTaxMaggeddon if they approve California Proposition 30,
despite what Brian Jones Long Beach teacher might say.
In a piece
titled California education needs Proposition 30 published Septemebr 25, 2012
by the Examiner.com, Jonews writes “ I have been in education since 2007.
When I first began teaching, there was funding for school field trips, small
class size, and teacher aides. My first classroom had 24 students in a 4/5
combination. In this small class I was able to address each individual need
through teacher led small groups that I could split between myself and my aide.
My inner-city class also got to go on a week-long science camp expedition to
gain firsthand experiences as to how mountains shift and geologic layers form.
This is in stark contrast to the last year of teaching.
I was teaching a third grade class composed of 36 students. When you would try
to make a copy, a sign covered the copier stating, “We are over our copy
limit,” this was November! The teachers at the school had to go 7 months
scrounging copies from a malfunctioning Duplo machine. If action is not taken,
there will be another $6 billion in cuts to California education; this means
over $50 million in mid-year cuts to Long Beach Unified School District alone.”
The issue is
not about money. The issue is not about
class size. The issue is about making
sure that the taxpayer money is used responsibly. The issue is that the Teachers Union, the one bankrolling
proposition 30, in conjunction with the SEIU spent over $500,000,000 to buy
lawmakers in Sacramento, over a ten year period.
Yesterday,
Governor Brown signed SB 1200, which according to State Board of Education
Executive Director will result in discouraging students from taking Algebra I
in eight grade.
Now consider
the old adage: If you cannot measure
it, you cannot manage it. The
California Teachers Union has been adamant about establishing performance
measurement criteria. Worse. Rather than focusing on improving education,
the California Teachers Union was
instrumental in defeating Senate Bill 1530, a bill to protect schoolchildren from teachers
who are sexual predators. After the recent arrest of Mark Berndt for feeding
his students cookies laced with his own semen, State Senator Alex Padilla, a
Democrat, submitted a bill to make it easier to fire such teachers. It passed
the Senate in Sacramento, but when it went to the Assembly, the California Teachers
Association put pressure on the Democrats and only one Democrat on the
committee voted for it.
So if you think
that California proposition 30 will actually help improve public education in
California, you qualify for a free iPhone.
If you call now, you are also eligible for a self-sterilization kit worth $999 that can be used to clean you gene
pool. Call now and be ready to face BrownTaxMaggeddon
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