As its first cohort of children enter preschool, County Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson writes about the structure and impact of the innovative early learning program in Multnomah County.
This is precisely the sort of thing that should NOT be funded by taxation. In a broad sense, taxes should mainly go to providing security and infrastructure - that's it. If free pre-K is really that beneficial to society, then its value should be recognized by others, and it could be funded by donations. Liberals like to view this as investing for our future - well, there you go; here's your chance to invest. Or perhaps another source could be a portion of lottery money, where people have indicated that they have disposable income to throw away. If one considers free pre-K to be worthy of taxation, it never ends. You can justify ANYTHING. Next thing will be free cars to help people get to work, free clothes, free insurance, free expenses. Taxpayers already contribute to free housing, free food, free college loan money, and now we learn, free tents and tarps. This mentality really needs to be reined in.
This is precisely the sort of thing that should NOT be funded by taxation. In a broad sense, taxes should mainly go to providing security and infrastructure - that's it. If free pre-K is really that beneficial to society, then its value should be recognized by others, and it could be funded by donations. Liberals like to view this as investing for our future - well, there you go; here's your chance to invest. Or perhaps another source could be a portion of lottery money, where people have indicated that they have disposable income to throw away. If one considers free pre-K to be worthy of taxation, it never ends. You can justify ANYTHING. Next thing will be free cars to help people get to work, free clothes, free insurance, free expenses. Taxpayers already contribute to free housing, free food, free college loan money, and now we learn, free tents and tarps. This mentality really needs to be reined in.