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State Question 744: A colossally bad idea (OPINION)

State Question 744: A colossally bad idea (OPINION)

Kingfisher Times & Free Press Online

Christine Reid • 08.29.10

Here’s an interesting business model:

Take an average of what all your competitors are spending to produce their product and then pledge to spend at least as much.

Do not take into account whether you can afford to spend at that level and still keep your business afloat.

Pay no attention to how or where the additional money is spent or where it will come from.

Most importantly, do not consider whether spending that much more money actually improves your product.

Doesn’t quite sound like the way Sam Walton made his fortune, does it? Yet that is exactly the bone-headed thinking behind State Question 744, which would require Oklahoma to raise its per pupil education spending to equal a regional average of what is spent in adjoining states... FULL ARTICLE

 

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