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priceless37 t1_ir4b0iv wrote

My favorite was what would he do to makeup for the lack of income tax? by firing state workers(2-3,000) and consolidate schools. This would also mean letting people go…… so he going to make up for no income tax by making a bunch of people jobless…….it doesn’t make sense.

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badhmorrigan t1_ir4fds5 wrote

And let a lot more children fall through the cracks. Can you imagine the class sizes?

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monsterscallinghome t1_ir4s4ad wrote

Fuck the class sizes, think of how many hours a day some of those kids would have to spend on the bus! Some of them are already >90 minutes each way.

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priceless37 t1_ir4zg5l wrote

Exactly, how is it cost cutting when you now need to transport children 25 miles too and from school??

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civildisobedient t1_ir4t7nl wrote

I remember that he criticized low teacher/student ratios. The man is an idiot.

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badhmorrigan t1_ir55bh4 wrote

That's insulting to idiots. He has obviously never spent a day in a classroom trying to teach 30 kids.

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Oldmtman_207 t1_ir5bmja wrote

A dangerous idiot! Who has many idiots supporting him. Come on Mainers we do not need this crooked clown anywhere near our statehouse. Send him back to Florida

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undertow521 t1_ir4wrp7 wrote

>by firing state workers(2-3,000) and consolidate schools.

Ahhh yes. As a state worker married to a teacher, I can't wait to go back to the days of fearing for our livelyhoods every contract year!

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Snooper2323 t1_ir4wdt9 wrote

But if they come to Maine, “they’ll be put to work!”

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worlds_okayest_skier t1_ir5na5c wrote

Wouldn’t want to “grow government” in a recession… LePage did not pay attention in history class.

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Dog_From_Malta t1_ir5tjqs wrote

Sounds like Lepage is getting funding from the gallows industry...

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tracyinge t1_ir6bcdj wrote

It doesn't have to make sense. He's hoping that a lot of people will hear "no more state income tax" and run to the voting booth. And a lot of them will. Luckily we're not Tennessee and have a lot of people who are smarter than that.

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priceless37 t1_ir6y1is wrote

Unfortunately a lot of voting republicans don’t have critical thinking skills to understand the consequences of no income tax. That’s why the republicans court the simple minded

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Rico_Solitario t1_irai2nr wrote

No you see the problem is that children in Maine are too well educated and the government is too well funded. If they ruin the school system and hamstring the government then Maine kids will grow up to be uneducated, poor and frustrated with underfunded government programs. Once all those pieces are in place Maine can become just as shitty a place to live as southern red states!

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priceless37 t1_iraqqch wrote

Can you imagine if our children were raised with Bible stories as factual? Thankfully Maine children are educated to think for themselves and not be indoctrinated into a cult religion

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Raptorex27 t1_ir5gctb wrote

No no, stare workers aren’t people. They’re brain dead, unqualified feeders off the hard-working taxpayers (the REAL people), who couldn’t cut it in the private sector.

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[deleted] OP t1_ir5k11a wrote

>No no, stare workers aren’t people. They’re brain dead, unqualified feeders off the hard-working taxpayers (the REAL people), who couldn’t cut it in the private sector.

I guess that explains why Uncle Paul wants to be a state worker again. All makes sense now.

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