FL Senate to Jeb: Screw You! The money goes to the Schools!

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/17/State/Senate_plan_redirects.shtml

More than $500-million slated by Gov. Jeb Bush for property tax cuts would instead go to schools - giving districts their biggest boost in a decade.
By JONI JAMES
Published March 17, 2006

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TALLAHASSEE - In a surprise move, leaders of Florida's Republican-controlled Senate have rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's call for a more than $500-million reduction in next year's property taxes, saying instead they want to spend the money on public schools.

The Senate position - quietly hammered out in a committee meeting this week and backed by some of the chamber's more-fiscally conservative members - would provide the biggest increase in operational funds for Florida schools in at least a decade.

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But the hike runs afoul of Bush and other Republicans who have been determined to further cut Floridians' taxes. It would shave more than a third off of Bush's $1.5-billion tax cut plan, which has received a sympathetic reception in the Florida House.

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Under the Senate plan, Pinellas would receive $20-million more than Bush had proposed, for a total of $54-million in "new money" from the state. That, at least in theory, would wipe away the district's budget crisis. District officials declined to comment Thursday.

...sorry Jeb, I know it must hurt terribly.

for a new yacht. What is this world coming to?

ahead of that new yacht.

Oh, and if you didn't understand me,

DING!

Fight against this education spending so your buddies can get more tax cuts....

cmon, we know your gonna do it, don't be shy.