Amendment 66: How Are You Going To Vote?

I will vote no. Schools already get 40% of the state budget. Plus enrollments are falling.
The ads say the money will go for certain things but the statehouse can just defund those areas and let the new tax pay for it.

I would like to know how much they have spent on the advertising campaign. Seems to me they could have bought a bunch of hula hoops

Aren't most classes funded 200,000-300,000 per classroom per year?

Can someone outline how that could not be enough. A teacher could start from scratch, buy a house with land and computers for everyone and not spend all that money. How could schools need anything but an audit?

Seriously, can anyone lay out a 10 line budget and show where the money is not enough.

$75k - Teacher (FT plus bennies)
$15k - Secretarial (PT plus bennies)
$15k - Building - New House with acres - mortgage,taxes, ins
$2k - Heat
$2k - Insurance
$3k - Electricity
$2k - Phone/internet
$3k - Books
$15k - Computers
$3k - Desks/Chair/Furniture
$1k - Posters and visuals
$10k - Misc

I can't even spend $150k, which is less than the funding for most US classrooms - while buying new equipment and furniture each year, a new house with land every 30 years and paying a teacher and staff close to $100k a year.

Again, how is it possible the schools need more money let alone the money the have? Is it all going to the principal? Standardized test fees? What?

Can you say "administrators?"

Can you say government?

Walter nailed the problem on the head; school districts, Jeffco specifically, carry a lot of overhead in their budgets because of the administrators who "manage" the school district. Let's not forget that politics are involved and what better prop to bring to the stump than the children to help win over the hearts and minds of the voters. "We don't want little Sally and poor Johny to have to use five year old text books, antiquated computers, and have to attend classes in school buildings that are 10+ years old... Do it for the children, we're only asking for $130-ish dollars a year per family."

I'd be happy to donate more money than that every year if I had any faith in the Jeffco School District administration to ensure that the money actually ends up in the classrooms and not consumed as one more layer of fat to fund the administration's wish lists, pointless studies, and perks for the fat cats.

Based on my poll, it looks likes 66 will be unsuccessful this time. The only people I have heard defending it are PERA clients.

FredHayek wrote: [important:1fao502w]The only people I have heard defending it are PERA clients.[/important:1fao502w]

So are you trying to imply that the money gained if 66 passes wouldn't actually end up in the classrooms? I guess you're not understanding the information that the pro-66 people are broadcasting on radio, TV, social media, and through the US postal service...

For once in a long while I think the voters can smell the BS in this amendment and they're not going to get hoodwinked this time around.

I'm voting yes. The pot users wanted it legal, the state has had to use resources... time and money to set up this new law and they are going to have to manage the law. Let them who want to smoke it pay for this law.

If the money doesn't get used for the purpose stated, then that is a whole different issue that can be broach in the future.

I voted yes. I'm not against pot use (I have a little right in front of me, but I really don't like it, makes me too mellow, I don't like to be mellow) but this is a typical situation of those wanting their brownies and eating it too.

Walter, You must have used up the little bit that you had. Amendment 66 is about the dope for teachers, not the dope for us.