Andrew Bossie was tired of bad ballot referendums. After spending the fall of 2005 with Maine student activists and the League of Young Voters fighting a referendum that would have gutted an anti-discrimination bill written to protect Maine’s gay population, he decided to go on the offensive and use the same process to address the needs of Maine’s students. “People were… return to article
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Reader Comments (3)Page 1 of 1 pagesAm I glad I don’t live in Maine, (although I live in an equally idiotic state). Why should I be forced to subsidize someone else’s education? If you would like to attract businesses to the state, why not lower taxes?
Posted by Rotten on Jul 17, 2007 at 2:18 AM Do you object to paying for the education of K-12 children? Just curious.
One might make the argument that educating the workforce to their natural capacity would be good for the economy.
Posted by wolf on Jul 18, 2007 at 5:07 PM I don’t mind paying for k-12 education because people payed for mine, but I don’t think that I should be forced to pay for someone’s post secondary education. If we want to improve education, let’s not subsidize people’s higher education, let’s make the k-12 education better.
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