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Timeflyer

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Wed Mar 15, 2023, 08:49 PM Mar 2023

Need a place to grow your billions? Don't care about quality education?

Are you a billionaire, looking a safe place to grow your’ wealth?

Can’t get enough of that dough, ray, me, and don’t care how you make it?

Where some people see children, do you see dollar signs?

Well, you’re in luck—because Florida public schools are up for sale!

Who says public dollars should go to public schools? Not you, Big Money Investor! --Not when it could be going into your pockets!

If you thought corporate charter schools were a great source of recession proof, regular income stream, with huge growth potential, just wait until you hear about the newest scheme to profit from K-12 students!

Yes, Florida’s crazy, crazy, crazy legislature is practically giving away tax dollars to a lucky few investors who know a lucrative thing when they smell it—and that smell is “universal school vouchers” *

Florida’s House Bill 1 / Senate Bill 202!

(*disclaimer--a few billionaire heavy hitters have gotten in before you, because they heard about this really profitable sector of the real estate market in 2012. They’ve been buying greedy politicians for years to make this reverse Robin Hood scheme official and widespread in Florida-- like this guy, John Kirtley of Tampa, a venture capitalist who’s got a political committee called “Florida Federation for Children” (FCC), which sounds very caring and vague. Well, since 2010 Kirtley’s FCC has channeled millions to favored political candidates. In return—payday! His company called “Step Up for Students” is the big winner in the newly proposed legislature, HB1 /SB202, that takes tax dollars away from those greedy, lazy public schools, and puts it into his pocket. Anyway, it’s complicated, but you can see how smart and rich he is, because who cares about quality education for students when there’s all those tax dollars just laying around, going to regular yucky traditional public schools—the places where poor people send their kids. And you know how you pay to keep your kids away from those kids, by sending them to private schools—well, you now can take $8,000 bucks from public tax dollars and pay your kid’s tuition with it, no matter how richy-rich-rich you are. Told ya’—crazy. Crazy like a bunch of rich foxes in the hen house, right? Welcome aboard, you greedy billionaire! Any excess funds you have laying around, and any political favors you need, just send $ to your chosen GOP politician and ask. We here for you—not those yucky poor people.)

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Need a place to grow your billions? Don't care about quality education? (Original Post) Timeflyer Mar 2023 OP
Betsy DeVos, are you listening? Meadowoak Mar 2023 #1
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