The Ugly Truth About How We Can Fund Education and Stop the Strikes

A historian announced Washington's education crisis and teacher strikes are déjà vu for him. Apparently the exact same thing happened in New Jersey in 1976. Here's how they solved the problem, but you're not going to like it.

In 1976 the New Jersey Supreme Court closed all schools until the legislature followed the state constitution and properly funded it.

Most school districts experiencing strikes say they wouldn't be having problems if the state properly funded education.

Well, the New Jersey legislature in 1976 had no other options, but to institute an income tax! It held out as long as it could, but with declining infrastructure, need for economic development, and a requirement from the courts to provide more money to schools, the state decided it needed a new source of revenue.

Washington needs major road construction and there's no way to give health and human services enough money AND fix the roads AND fund Medicaid AND fund education. Should it create an income tax?