Among other priorities according to the Zero -"$6.7 million raised by the tax increase would go into a regional pool to pay for early-intervention programs for children in abusive, negligent or violent households, teen-outreach strategies and adult jail-diversion efforts. "
Now if experience speaks well- this money will go to fuel the local divorce industry and lobbying efforts of non profits. Residents should expect more full time employees of non profit orgs hanging out at the legislature to push an agenda. Further- these institutional programs are expensive and have NO accountability to do anything but put more money into the incestuous lobbying game that's already going strong up at the Hazard County Courthouse.
Instead of jacking the sales tax to fund the lobbying efforts and agendas of orgs like those I've mentioned in earlier posts -with bottom of the barrel attorneys that thrive on dumping fuel on already volatile family situations- they could just pass shared parenting legislation so that many of these at risk kids would have two parents instead of one + a support check.
Ah yes- but the said money train already has plenty of tax payer funded lobbyists to make sure that doesn't happen.
Nuclear family? Yes a novel idea from an era of far lower taxes and smaller government, but sadly the concept of two parent families is passe- or as the Washington Post puts it- for the rich and elite.
On the flip side- this tax is regressive in nature and nails hardest those single mom low income "non traditional" families that the left celebrates and encourages- so there's a little bit of cosmic justice to it all.
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