I don’t have kids but I find it unconscionable that every year there is a struggle to find funding for schools. When I was in school there was an excellent after school theater program being run by a teacher that really cared. I’m fairly certain that if not for that program I would have been hanging out with my stepbrothers and they both ended up spending time in jail. Shouldn’t the education of our future be one of our top priorities?

Maybe I have a solution. How about a tax on campaign contributions? Tax all contributions to all candidates running for any office. There seems to be an inexhaustible amount of money for all those candidates and what politician running for office wouldn’t want to help pay for education just by running? Personally I think more schools, more teachers with better salaries and smaller classes is worth the sacrifice of a mudslinging television campaign or two.

I don’t have the political savvy to get an idea like this in motion but maybe someone out there reading this will.

I know, I know, it’s a ridiculous idea but we need a solution that doesn’t put a burden on those already struggling to get by and we need it quickly.