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I'm glad this is the vital issue that our legislature is working on right now.
Meanwhile, we have a major teacher shortage because in most of Indiana, they're paid less than $60,000 a year.
Indiana public schools are a huge mess. My daughter had a substitute teacher for all of fifth grade. Her previous experience was running a theater company that put on plays for children in Orange County, CA. She was terrible. She punished my daughter for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance (I raised holy hell about that since it is her legal right to not say it) and I found out from my daughter that summer that she was teaching the kids about Trump's big election lie as if Trump was right.
She left at the end of the year to "teach" at a private Christian school.
But hey, people will be able to get drunk cheaper!
We'll all need to with our lack of good education.
I talk to teachers from Hamilton county and Hendricks county. They say everything's fucked.
From the lesson plans that only teach istep or what ever it's called now.
They also say the kids can hit them and they can't do shit about it. Plus parents coming in screaming at them.
Neither one I'm referring to would be a trumper, let alone teach something like that.
I don't know what school needs yet. Our high school board meetings had to go online only because people were in there about to start fights.
Even if teachers aren't something the legislature should focus on (and I would argue that they are), this should be way far down the priorities list. It just shows how little they're interested in governing.
But hey, the restaurant and bar lobby is apparently getting it's money's worth.
I am betting this is pretty accurate.
I imagine, without reading anything yet, that downtown businesses like restaurants and bars are a pretty decent tax revenue for the city. What else gives them revenue other than income tax, property tax?
I wonder if they've talked about anticipated tax increases due to that.
I feel like this is evidenced in the state's forced three days in office policy. The state gov is spending millions leasing buildings downtown, while downtown businesses are whining about reduced patrons. I understand since they are getting killed by leasing rates.
Just seems like these are measures to support the owners of the city. I guess income means more budget, which could mean better roads and hopefully education.
I like the side effect of getting to carry out drinks.