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“As Indiana looks ahead, the story of 2024 and 2025 will hopefully be remembered as a turning point—a year when policymakers chose to prioritize children and families, even at the cost of short-term strain on child care businesses”
No, it will be remembered as the years when we decided to ram through a property tax cut because a rich guy ran for governor and insisted it get done before we even had the revenue forecast for the budget. Then, when the revenue came back lower than expected, rolling back the tax cut was never an option and he rammed through cuts he intended to do the entire time under the guise of “we can’t afford it”. Totally backwards of how an actual businessman would do things.
Then he got on his taxpayer funded helicopter and flew home to his taxpayer funded helipad at his “work from home exempt office” in Jasper. Man of the people in his blue shirt, he is.
Sometimes Joe is right. This is one of those times.
This entire state response is straight out of Marie Antionette. As in “let them eat cake.” Disgraceful.
In this case; “let them fly to work”
Yeah, a “short-term strain on child-care businesses.” And then when some of those places go out of business, that will be even more of a strain on parents, and ultimately a strain on the workplaces where they are trying to hold jobs while also being parents.
Kind of like the short-term strain that rural grocery stores will feel when SNAP benefits disappear. Given their low margins, it would not be surprising if some close, idling their workforce and creating even more need for SNAP. And then there’s the short-term strain that hospitals in Indiana will feel when state and federal policies cause decreases in reimbursements and increases in charity care and uninsured patients.
Conservative governance is going to “short-term strain” the Hoosier economy into a long-term decline.
Yet, the state has plenty of money to pay for school vouchers for wealthy parents to send their children to private schools. When the state voucher program was introduced many years ago, the justification was it would level the playing field for lower income families to be able to send their children to private schools which would be better able to serve their children’s needs, just like wealthy families have been doing for years. However, each year since the beginning, the income limits for voucher eligibility have been raised and now all but eliminated, allowing families making hundreds of thousands of dollars to receive vouchers to send their children to the private school they would have sent them to anyway, because they could afford to pay the tuition. Now, lower income students are being kept out of private schools because the voucher is not enough to pay the full tuition and the balance due is unaffordable. The wealthy family now receives the voucher subsidy that would have been used by a low income student, paying the balance of tuition due, effectively taking the spot of the low income student, for whom the whole voucher program was originally designed.