California Teachers Support Sales Tax Hike

San Diego Union Tribune reports:

The governing body of the California Teachers Association voted over the weekend to support signature gathering for a ballot measure that would hike the California sales tax by a penny on the dollar with all the proceeds going to the state's schools.

The initiative, which the 340,000-strong teachers' union filed in December, is not part of any budget negotiations ongoing in the Capitol.

The sales tax would generate between $5 billion and $6 billion per year, the union estimates.

And what the proceeds go to? To help schools generally? Nope. To help a very specific bunch.

The measure would restrict use of the revenue to specific purposes that include class size reduction, funding art, music and vocation education courses, and salaries for teachers and other school employees.

Theft through majority voting.