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In reply to the discussion: "Holy smokes!" President Obama Releases Full Pre-K Plan [View all]vlyons
(10,252 posts)22. It's not just about where do we get the money now.
I can think of lots of ways to fund it, starting with Wall St and DOD. We could raise the income tax on hedge funds that currently pay only about 15%, we could tax electronic stock and bond trades at 0.03% per $100. We could cut DOD programs.
More importantly, think how much we will save long term by not having impoverished children grow up without preschool learning and be condemned to fall farther and farther behind peers with each year, become school dropouts, and then start a life of crime as the only way to generate income.
I hope the Republicans fight this to the max, so that Americans turn against them and vote more of them out. The stupid party will probably do just this.
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Really? Is that how you view ths US? Look around with open eyes... we are flush with wealth.
gtar100
Feb 2013
#17
To say nothing of what we spend to pour our cereal out of a fancy box every morning,
JDPriestly
Feb 2013
#35
Partnerships will pay!! I would rather spend tax dollars on this than on the next fighter jet!!!
kelliekat44
Feb 2013
#6
hope that money gets used in some of the "underutilized" schools on the chopping block here
mopinko
Feb 2013
#19
Too bad, I think it's a good (and different) way of approaching early education
frazzled
Feb 2013
#44
How long until we start closing the "underperforming" early start schools in "bad" areas?
coluccim
Feb 2013
#24
I have a lot of these same concerns. I am also concerned that they will now take 3 and 4 year olds,
Squinch
Feb 2013
#52
This plan will do more against Gun Violence than almost anything else
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#25
Rich kids do better in school for a lot of reasons we have yet to address, but this is a big one.
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
#41
+1. I've also read how head start dosn't work long-term. Sad, but apparently true.
reformist2
Feb 2013
#36
It probably doesn't work because you can't just give young infants support and then yank it out from
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2013
#39
Long term...like how long. Or is it high schools are not that beneficial long-term?
kelliekat44
Feb 2013
#38