> It becomes the new normal, which means that if anybody wants to reverse course, the burden is on them to find alternative sources for $50-100MM in tax revenue.
That "alternative source" is invariably tax increases. Politicians aren't terribly clever about these sorts of things.
> And a major chunk of the tax revenue is explicitly earmarked for public education
That's not at all an iron-clad guarantee of how the money is spent, you may want to look up e.g., the North Carolina Education Lottery.
That "alternative source" is invariably tax increases. Politicians aren't terribly clever about these sorts of things.
> And a major chunk of the tax revenue is explicitly earmarked for public education
That's not at all an iron-clad guarantee of how the money is spent, you may want to look up e.g., the North Carolina Education Lottery.