Give a close read to Democrat candidate Pat Edmonson’s education plan. After scrolling through her pages of fully funding Pre-K, hiring lots more teachers, free community college for every Virginia student, and tuition forgiveness for teachers, i read these doozies.
Reducing the amount of jail time for non violent offenders can save 30 percent, yielding $300 million for education.
Edmonson proposes freeing stalkers, child molesters, drunk driving manslaughterers, arsonists, child pornographers and those convicted of breaking and entering so she can hire more members for the teacher’s unions.
And, of course, it’s nice to see Democrats itching to raise taxes.
We propose a Readjustment of state income taxes for those making more than $200,000 a year. This would create a new tax bracket for the wealthiest Virginians, slightly increasing the state tax on their income.
A readjustment? Creating a new tax bracket and raising taxes almost a half-billion dollars is a readjustment? What would she call strangulation? Intermittent oxygen flow?
Edmonson said she was running as a progressive. Raising taxes and freeing felons to spend more in schools is about as liberal as you can get.
