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"WHEN IS IT GOING TO BE ENOUGH?" | State Rep. Betsy Fogle of Springfield, who serves as the lead Democrat on the House Budget Committee, pushed back hard this week after Republicans put $60 million of the state's general revenue into private school vouchers, leaving even less money for the state's public schools.

Each year, Republican politicians continue to privatize more parts of the education system, -- essentially selling off the best investment we can make in the next generation of Missourians.

Public money should stay in public schools. Period.

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PUBLIC SCHOOLS = PUBLIC GOOD | During one of her final speeches on the House Floor, state Rep. Betsy Fogle of Springfield passionately defended the effort to provide all Missouri children with free access to a K-12 education.

Her remarks came shortly before the Republican-controlled Missouri House voted to pass the state's $50 billion budget, which included $60 million of taxpayer money going into the private school system.

"Education should not be something that only a few can afford," Fogle said. "I'm not saying there are not gaps and problems within our public school system, but it is so much easier to stand at a mic and tear a system down than it is to fight to fix it."

Missouri Democrats are committed to fixing it.

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When accepting the Liberal Party nomination on September 14, 1960, would-be 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy pushed back against the derogatory use of the term "liberal."

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'MORALLY WRONG' | State Rep. David Tyson Smith, a Democrat from Columbia, argued against the resolution (HJR 173) that would allow state lawmakers to raise sales taxes on any goods and services in order to shift the state's tax burden away from high income earners.

He describes the resolution as immoral, because it recklessly disregards the thousands of Missouri seniors who don't pay state income taxes right now and therefore would only see their daily costs increase under the plan being pushed by Missouri Republican politicians.

Missourians have one more chance to stop this: The 2026 ballot.

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"EMBARRASING & SHAMEFUL" | Around this time last year, the Republicans in Jefferson City forced through a complete overturn of the VOTER-APPROVED earned sick leave and minimum wage laws which passed on the statewide ballot just months earlier.

During the House debate, state Rep. Jaclyn Zimmermann of Manchester called out the Republican politicians who supported the betrayal. She highlighted the clear rejection of the Christian principles which many of them profess to follow.

"All I am hearing here today is that we are not going to take care of the less fortunate, we're not going to take care of the poor and we're not going to take care of the sick," Zimmermann said.

Missouri deserved better.

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