Reply #19: not exactly

[pop goes the weasel]

"They"--the big bidness people who control this state--want all the tax money they can get from the folks they are paying minimum wage to and the least amount of tax money to be extracted from their own wallets. That part I understand. I guess I should have said that what I don't understand is how average people, with the power of the vote, don't demand better. I don't understand why we don't have Democrats running for office on a tax-replacement platform. I don't understand why a state that demands that all school districts use the same curriculum and text books doesn't provide for the funding of all school districts from the wealth of the entire state, instead of making local tax payers shoulder differently weighted burdens.