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A wish granted that couldn't happen to a more deserving populace.
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OP - The tax would sunset in 12 years.
Not likely. When has California ever LOWERED a tax? Haha.
The politicians will find a way around it. At the very least, they will certainly become permanently dependent on it.
However, I DO agree California needs to be come less dependent on income and sales tax for their government revenue. Those tax revenues tend to rise and fall too much with the boom and bust cycle of the economy, yet services need to be rendered all the time - fire, ambulance, police, courts, jails, health care, roads, sewers, trash, water, etc.
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To bad they can't create a lottery system to support the school's.
We need a fuel tax for road maintenance.
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I'd start hoarding Monopoly money for when we run out of green backs.
Hey, let's start a "Just Say No" movement. Maybe we can get someone like Nancy Reagan to be the face of the campaign.
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My neighbor ran LAUSD back in the day. He stated back then that they are the most corrupt/money wasting entity in Los Angeles, possibly the state. He did not last long. They forced him out when he started making changes to control some of the waste. I cannot imagine it has gotten any better. They are threatened with the success of charter schools for a reason.
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Hey stinkin cat...don't EVER connect my name with LAUSD again...EVER! That's about as ugly as callin me a Repubelican. How would you like me to advertise All You Can Eat $5.00 cat hot pot in Koreatown?
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cal has the 47th worst schools in the country, nothing they do can fix it except fire all admin and bust the 2 unions
neither of which will ever happen, nor will all the corrupt taxes in the world
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Los Angeles consists mostly of Dumbocrats. If they tell the populace it will help impeach Trump they will vote for it. Then the Dumbocrats will use the money to hire lawyers for illegals or something equally stupid.
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The only one with double EE around here is that broad MsTurner.
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Picking up aluminum cans at the OWN studios isn't exactly a job.
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Ok wasn't the California Lottery suppose to have fixed all our school problems? where's all that
money going I wonder.
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How do you think I keep this place awash in FX? MAGA!
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What about measure DD?
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or the leaps program at lake elsinore
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When the California lottery was first introduced in California the politicians knew based upon the information gained from other state lotteries that initially the lottery might provide as much as 3% of the annual money needed to fund the schools but once the initial novelty wore off it would drop to about 1.5% of the annual money needed to fund schools.
Of course that is not what the politicians told everyone at the time. They also made statements that the majority of the lotto sales would not be made in the poorest neighborhoods in the state which also ignored a lot of previous history.
Then again it would have probably been easier to find 10 righteous men in Sodom and Gomorrah than it is to find ten politicians in California that don't lie.
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Yes, I remember the lottery money was supposed to go to schools. Some journalist actually woke up a few years later and wrote that none of the money actually went to the school system.
Then, there was Prop 98 that guaranteed 40% of state spending to education. Whatever happened to that amount?
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The point about the lottery money was that in a best case scenario it was only going to be a small amount of the money needed to fund the schools.
Initially at least some of the money from the lottery did go to schools and the school districts were cautioned to only spend it on non recurring costs because initially their would be more money available than there would be after the novelty of a lottery wore off.
Of course some school districts did not heed that advice, put the money into teacher salaries and ended up with financial problems when the amount of lottery money shrank.
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LAUSD's many taxing troubles.
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