Comments on: Writing a check for $400 is not considered a tax? http://www.theliberaloc.com/2008/04/19/writing-a-check-for-400-is-not-considered-a-tax/ Challenging Orange County's right-wing noise machine Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:08:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan Chmielewski http://www.theliberaloc.com/2008/04/19/writing-a-check-for-400-is-not-considered-a-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-16697 Dan Chmielewski Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:58:30 +0000 http://www.theliberaloc.com/2008/04/19/writing-a-check-for-400-is-not-considered-a-tax/#comment-16697 Irvine parents are shaken down annually to help fund for our scools what the state will not. It amounts to a tax increase; I just wish the state would tax me for the amount and make sure it goes to the classroom woithout restrictions on how the local district can spend it. Irvine parents are shaken down annually to help fund for our scools what the state will not. It amounts to a tax increase; I just wish the state would tax me for the amount and make sure it goes to the classroom woithout restrictions on how the local district can spend it.

]]> By: Robert in Monterey (originally from Tustin) http://www.theliberaloc.com/2008/04/19/writing-a-check-for-400-is-not-considered-a-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-16679 Robert in Monterey (originally from Tustin) Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:07:16 +0000 http://www.theliberaloc.com/2008/04/19/writing-a-check-for-400-is-not-considered-a-tax/#comment-16679 Excellent framing of this article. Feel like crossposting it to Calitics? What this shows is that Republicans are openly embracing aristocracy. At one time their party used to believe in populism and economic opportunity. No longer. Now they believe that the only people entitled to a public education are those who can pay for it out of their own pocket - and if you can't, well, that's your own damn fault. In order to protect the wealthy from further taxation, everyone else must sacrifice social mobility and economic growth. Excellent framing of this article. Feel like crossposting it to Calitics?

What this shows is that Republicans are openly embracing aristocracy. At one time their party used to believe in populism and economic opportunity. No longer. Now they believe that the only people entitled to a public education are those who can pay for it out of their own pocket – and if you can’t, well, that’s your own damn fault. In order to protect the wealthy from further taxation, everyone else must sacrifice social mobility and economic growth.

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