Let no good deed go unpunished...a Phildelphia, PA city councilperson has proposed keeping bars open an extra hour to 3 AM to raise more tax dollars for schools and other services....It's not getting a good reaction, but it's really no different than a number of other schemes to tax the public in the name of the children, or law and order or whatever else you want to cite.
Promoting gambling through lotteries...taxing cigarettes to fund health care.....making drinkers pay for our schools...It's all good politics, even if it is intellectually silly.
Not-so-happy hour: Proposal to keep Philly bars open to benefit schools draws fire Philadelphia Inquirer 01/28/2012
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Why not just ask each student to bring a dollar or more to through in the pot every day? A dollar a day for a good education doesn't sound expensive to me. Easy way to end all the problems of money. Then all we would need is students who want to learn from the teachers.
I don't see the problem at all. If it saves one child it would be fine by me.
50 years ago the people of NJ were promised that the taxes from harness racing would be the solution to school funding.
Horse racing, sin taxes, property taxes, lotteries, consilidated bigger schools, on & on the booty collected grows ever larger despite all the while the simultaneous repetitive & alarming reports of degraded student performance & the usual political electioneering of "crumbling schools".
Public schooling is a financial disaster exactly because it is run(into the ground) by government.
Where did the money go? The people of Philadelphia could no more answer that question than any other district in America.
The silly part is that it would not not necessarily increase revenue significantly.
When I lived in Albany the bars were open until four am. I don't think they got any more business than we do around here, because most people just waited two hours later before they went out. In fact, I suspect it was more common to drink at home before going out, which might result in less drinks being purchased in the bars. The one thing that did seem to increase was the visiting patrons from neighboring counties.
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