I think the bigger problem is a large percentage of stunningly inadequate parents, a problem that will not be fixed by raising teacher salaries or throwing money at schools in other ways. Though, I am all for raises, since my wife is a teacher http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif I'd like to see the user fee concept applied to higher education. Let the UW system students, who are the primary benficiaries of the massive amount of tax revenue directed there, pay the full cost of their own educations (via loans, allowing them to pay this cost over the rest of their lives, would be fine). Anyway, this whole thing from Lehman is probably just fodder for the masses, designed to bolster the guy's reelection campaign in Racine, where many will ever get over their outrage over the 0.1% and will vote for whoever demonstrates the most hate of the Brewers/Miller Park/0.1%. I understand principles, but give me a break, we are talking about probably $20-50 per year for the average person/family...is there really nothing more significant in terms of government taxing/spending that people can find to be outraged over.