KY Guv To Veto 'Sugary' Budget That GOP Passed In Light Of Teacher Protests

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo/AP

By ADAM BEAM | April 9, 2018 1:27 pm

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican governor said Monday he will veto a $480 million tax increase and a two-year operating budget the state’s GOP-controlled legislature passed in part to increase public education funding amid protests from teachers.

The plan would impose a 6 percent sales tax on a variety of services like auto and home repairs while cutting the income tax rate for some individuals and businesses. Republican lawmakers used the extra money from the taxes to spend a record-high $4,000 per pupil in public school classrooms and to restore $254 million in money for school buses that Bevin had proposed to eliminate.

Last week, Bevin’s budget director said revenue estimates from the tax proposals were not accurate. He said the new taxes, if signed into law, would lead to at least a $50 million shortfall over the next two years. Bevin said the budget and the new taxes were not responsible or wise. “I did not take this job to make people politically happy,” Bevin said. “Those of you who are parents understand this. Sometimes making the hard decision, putting the sugary cereal back on the shelf, doesn’t make everyone involved in that situation happy. But sometimes it is the right thing to do.”

Kentucky’s legislative leaders said Bevin was “misguided.” They asked to meet with him before he signs the veto.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kentucky-governor-expected-veto-gop-passed-budget

[mac56]

1. "putting the sugary cereal back on the shelf"

Condescending SOB.

[Ohiogal]

2. I can't believe it

This dumbass equates safe school buildings, adequate materials, a modest pay raise for vastly underpaid teachers, and bus service...... to "sugary cereal"? What is WRONG with these jackasses in the GOP! I swear, they want to strangle public education to the point where we'll have one room schoolhouses with outhouses in the back and everyone graduates after 8th grade!

[msongs]

3. whats wrong? they reflect the views of the majority of voters who vote for them nt

[Danascot]

18. You're right

One of our state senators just sent out the results of a survey he conducted. Basically his constituents wanted lower taxes and more jobs. Education, healthcare and the environment were lower priorities. The message to this legislator was: I want mine but don't take my money for things that would benefit the greater society.

We need to do a better job educating the public about why it's in their interest to spend money that will benefit the community as a whole. Instead they've been hammered for years by right wing media that champion the I want mine, screw everyone else doctrine.

[volstork]

12. This is exactly what they want.

"they want to strangle public education to the point where we'll have one room schoolhouses with outhouses in the back and everyone graduates after 8th grade!"

Then there is an uneducated and malleable underclass ripe for persuasion with propaganda. It's the GOP's wet dream.

[turbinetree]

4. Hey Bevin did you by chance in your endeavors of going to school, did you realize

that everyone had to pay a school tax to educate your dumb ass for starters, and to be "selective" in cutting taxes, on the haves to the have not's, this just shows what kind of corrupt legislature and governance there is in Kentucky-----------education exposes the down right illegitimacy of republicans across the board..................



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[negoldie]

16. Native Kentuckian here

Kentucky is ranked as the 1st or 2nd most corrupt state government in the country. Is it any wonder they would literally take food from children to feed their own corrupt selves........ Shakes head, wishes to move to California...if he could afford it.

[turbinetree]

17. My mother was born in Kentucky, and she would be turning over in her grave

knowing that a self centered maniacal right wing hypocrites are actually attacking the citizens of the state.
During her schooling she only needed to have an eighth grade education, and when she got married she told herself that all of her children would get that high school diploma, because of the simple fact it got us out of the ranks of poverty, that she grew up in...................

This Bevin character has no business being in government, his authoritarian narcissistic malignant attitude is to take health care away, education away, from all appearance it looks like a modern day slave trade being implemented by the republican controlled state legislature, and the congressional hypocrites .....................and they need to be blamed.....the state can do better, a lot better.

The state use to be completely blue when my mother was growing up and now its turned into red shit

Type in education and health ranking for Kentucky and they are 41st out of 50 states , not counting territories, that says everything..................amazing


https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kentucky


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough


https://elect.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx


https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Kentucky,_2018

[barbtries]

5. so a decent education

is just the sugar on the cereal. but republicans' getting rich, richer, richest on the taxpayers' backs, that's a must do.

i hate republicans.

[aggiesal]

6. Everyone wants the services, ...

but nobody wants to pay for them.

Ky. Governor doesn't want the services and doesn't want to pay for them.
GOP = Greedy One Percent.

Jacka$$e$ is correct!

[dbackjon]

13. I don't mind paying for them

You will find most democrats don't mind pay taxes for schools, and other social programs.

[aggiesal]

20. I don't mind paying them either ...

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Here's the weird part; I live in a predominately republican area in San Diego.
I moved into a new housing development so all the neighbors were new and
we just started to develop friendship and getting to know each other.

When the rainy season came those of us who didn't have rain gutters
installed, banded together and order rain gutters from an installer that would
give multi house discounts.

Same thing happened when the summer season started and houses needed
air conditioning. We banded together and ordered air conditioning units
from a company that gave a multi house discount.

And on it went.

We banded together because there is power in numbers. It's cheaper for
everyone when you get groups together and order as groups (i.e. group discounts).

Yet when we need social services, you'll get people complaining that they don't
use a service so why pay for it?

For example, school buses used to be included as part of the public education system.
But some Republicans no longer had students in the public school system so why should
they pay for school buses?
The school bus service was profitized and they started charging $600 per student
per semester, to the families who used the bus. So, those families no doubt voted
Republican, who then cut back on subsidizing school buses. But once those families
need it, instead of paying a lot less for the service (i.e. group rate), they are now saddled
with a $1,200 per student per school year fee.

This is what voting Republican gets you!!!

[dbackjon]

21. Exactly - and I would add I don't, nor intend to have children

But a good school system benefits society (and selfishly, property values)

[TranssexualKaren]

7. Austerity confronts democracy!

Somethings gotta give.

[beachbum bob]

8. will kentucky teachers walk out?

cut the school term off now?

[ananda]

9. They should!

Go teachers!

[jmowreader]

15. Explain how the Class of 2018 would get their diplomas if the teachers walked out

Ending the school year early would screw a lot of people who didn't need to be screwed, just so the governor can look like a Real Man to his base.

[caballojm]

10. Looks like someone got his marching orders from the Bros. Koch.

The governor is a good boy and he listens to his masters.

[stuffmatters]

11. Yeah. Funny how Koch Puppets always frame realistic voters as children

And they're always the parent who knows best in their upside down, hateful austerity economics.

[n2doc]

14. Teachers respond

[UpInArms]

19. Isnt McTurtle from Kentucky?

These freaks will cut taxes on the top and push all the costs downward where there is no money

I despise them