It seems to me that Santa Fe is sort of a spectator to the country. Many of the residents are retired. Other residents work for the military/industrial complex
or tourism industries and are detached the poverty of the state.
I think these kinds of unsustainable, desperation revenue measures are part of a process of collapsing the low population, low cooperation parts of the country
and increasing the power of the cities. What are people thinking anyway, raising a kid out here in the middle of nowhere?
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Anyone like to bet that we will now address these issues "rationally" so that there will be either funding for Pre-K or disincentives for sugary drinks? I will take the opposite
side of that bet.
We now see the power of those corporate interests who will provide the millions of dollars needed to defeat any tax proposal that might hurt them. Some how I do not expect them
to be funding Pre-K education by any means. Also any new proposal to tax sugary drinks will prompt their money to be put into opposition. Further note what our Governor said in response to yesterday's defeat about the public mood to increase taxes.
Yes, elitists may well think that Pre-K dominates cheap soda. And, yes, elitists don't drink Coca-Cola and instead like Perrier water. So District votes hardly surprising.
Duncan
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