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AS Delegate Slaughter says, state government must learn to live within its income— and that doesn’t mean spending freely (on staff and quarters, not benefits). The first bureaucratic reaction to a financial squeeze is to contemplate reductions in school aid and other programs which have a direct effect on taxpaying citizens. That’s the way to stir up the troops, and beat the drums for higher and still higher taxes, all right!
You want a Good Education for your kids, don’t you? Then support our tax increases! If you don’t, we’ll “decree” certain things that you must do, and you’ll have to raise your local taxes even more. Shucks, you ought to be willing to shell out at both levels — the little kiddies deserve it!
Well, yes they do deserve first-rate educational opportunities. It’s just that we don’t think they’ll be particularly aided in this effort by a constantly swelling army of state bureaucrats.
Let’s hope Delegate Slaughter has a lot of like-minded company in Richmond. □
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