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no_hypocrisy

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4. Funds for public education are already depleted by the mandate of funding

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Dec 9, 2021, 09:12 AM

Dec 2021

charter schools.

If public schools lose more money to religious schools, it will be near impossible to continue with the future of education in the public sector. Or was that the plan all along?

Taxpayers already complain about their property taxes being too high. Getting another increase to fund a stipend for religious schools isn't going to happen.

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The Supreme Court Is Ready to Make Taxpayers Fund Religious Schools [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP

Canada DownriverDem Dec 2021 #1

Geez, it sounds like the right might... Omnipresent Dec 2021 #2

I am skeptical that will necessarily translate to votes. In 2016 it was very clear that the Supreme JohnSJ Dec 2021 #3

Trump's appointees are pissing people off in middle. Omnipresent Dec 2021 #6

I wish you were right, but the current polls don't indicate it, especially for the House JohnSJ Dec 2021 #12

Election day is 11 months away Omnipresent Dec 2021 #14

You're absolutely right. The vast majority of voters don't pay any Colgate 64 Dec 2021 #11

Also a huge challenge for us in the House is the redistricting that is favoring republicans JohnSJ Dec 2021 #13

Funds for public education are already depleted by the mandate of funding no_hypocrisy Dec 2021 #4

"Defund the Schools" moose65 Dec 2021 #8

We need a tax revolt randr Dec 2021 #5

How will this work if Islamic and Jewish schools start popping up with Ilsa Dec 2021 #7

There was a girl from Liberty University on Jeopardy a couple years ago. In the first round there brewens Dec 2021 #9

Conservative justices scoff at Maine's exclusion of religious schools from tuition-assistance mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 #10