Nov 26, 2012

Tour de Hartford

Matt Davies, 11/25/12:
OK, so "Connecticut Education Funding" is a tandem bicycle on which the first rider, "Property Taxes," does all of the work, while his diminutive friend, "State School Aid," sits quietly, because he can't reach the pedals anyway.

So, clearly, we should get some of those Lance Armstrong-endorsed super-steroids for the little state dude, so he can grow big and strong and then take his fair share of the pedaling, right?

I can almost see what that would mean in the real world, but I suspect Davies has not thought through the fact that Connecticut taxpayers are going to be the ones really spinning the wheels either way, no matter which middlemen are in the cartoon, and so the difference isn't terribly compelling.

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