I warned you months ago when council members began discussing another income tax increase to support public safety that it was all a ruse to get more money in the City's coffers to use for other purposes just like the 2007 public safety tax ploy. Indianapolis Star political columnist Matt Tully is all giddy because of a deal brokered between the council and the administration to spend $20 million on pre-K education over the next five years, which supposedly will be matched by another $20 million from the business community.
The City doesn't have money to fix pothole-filled streets, broken sidewalks, neighborhoods without sidewalks or streetlights and so on, but it finds money to create a massive new spending program that it is not even required by law to fund. The new money was found by "scouring" the budget according to Tully. The program, which supposedly targets low-income families, never really made much sense since the federal government already provides 100% of the funding to those families for Head Start so now we learn that low-income standards will be relaxed to allow more to participate in free pre-K education.
Christmas is coming early to the Tully household this year. All of that lobbying for pre-K education will lead to a big bonus for his wife, who is a corporate executive at Eli Lilly and president of the Day Nursery, which is expected to be the biggest beneficiary of the new spending, the driving forces behind the initiative. Don't believe a word of their hype, Seizing control of IPS school board and lining up new spending on pre-K education has nothing to do about improving the quality of education; it's all about funneling your tax dollars into the pockets of the education profiteers and the media whores like Tully who pine for them.
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