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Hundreds protest proposed NC school funding cuts

Submitted by WWAY on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 12:18pm.READ MORE:
ASHEVILLE -- Hundreds of parents crammed into a hot high school gym to protest proposed education budget cuts. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Tuesday that about 1,000 people packed into the corners of a school gymnasium southwest of Asheville to protest statewide cuts of teachers and school programs. Proposed cuts could increase average class size by two students and eliminate more than 6,000 teachers' jobs across the state. Parents questioned whether the state was spending money wisely and urged legislators to raise taxes. Some wore red to protest budget-cutting. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Oh, don't worry - they'll be raising your taxes

Submitted by Commonsensenotc... on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 7:16am.
Everyone is worried about their ox being gored, but they don't seem to understand that when the money just isn't there, EVERY program should suffer under the pruning shears. Nobody gets spared. Oh, but don't worry. As long as we suffer from "government gone wild," as long as we cannot stop adding red zeroes to the tune of billions, as long as we elect politicians who view your money as THEIR money, and as long as the media keeps giving coverage to non-productive slugs who say, 'Raise my taxes" (when they likely don't pay any) the tax increases are coming. So sit down and hang onto your socks - the tax increases that are coming are going to boggle the mind.
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