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My concerm is that Jealous is proposing universal preschool and free higher education when the state is having issues funding K-12, especially in light of the fact that many school facilities are reaching obsolescence and need to be replaced.

There’s only so much money to play with, especially given how high our state taxes are relative to other states.[/quote]

Hate to burst your Hogan bubble, but Hogan was the Governor who approved free community college for those households making less than $124K/year.  So that ship has sailed.  And no one is really talking about free pre-K seriously in this time of shrinking budgets.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-approves-community-college-20180504-story.html[/quote]

Jealous's plan for universal pre-K: https://benjealous.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/BJM_k12_v1.pdf
Jealous's plan for free community college for all, no income cap: https://benjealous.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/BJM_HigherEd_v2.pdf

Maybe Jealous isn't serious.[/quote]

I just read it, and the fiscal part of it is lacking and misleading. He claims all the funding will come from the Fix the Fund Act. What that does is take revenues from gambling that were intended for education but spent on other items, and spend them back on education.

In principle, I agree with that. What happened (let's simplify) is if the gambling tax brought in $10mln, then they gave that to education, but took $10mln out of the general fund contribution to education, so no net gain for education. Then they take the $10mln that they _were_ going to give to education for the general fund, and spend it on other projects.

What Jealous's plan seems to not mention is -- what happens to all those other projects? They all get cut then, or we need to spend more.[/quote]

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