Circuit Breaker and Unfunded Mandates

A circuit breaker would protect lower income and fixed income families. If the state agrees to cover the difference you would be directly responsible for funding mandates and would be forced to monitor the cost of mandates. As long as they are unfunded they will just get passed, good and bad. The possibility of a tax cap is scary. You can continue to make mandates but not allow schools to raise taxes. In order to fund new mandates schools will be forced to compromise vital but non mandated programs through teacher layoff. Please support the circuit breaker.