And I’ll endorse tomorrow. No joke–in fact, I said this before
This is an issue I’ve done quite a bit of work on over the last few years and I feel quite strongly about it. I’ll be adding more to this over the next week in what I hope can be a fairly in depth policy analysis of why this is important–nay, essential. The most basic point is that the Minneapolis Fed study by Art Rolnick found that spending on early childhood education is one of the best investments a government can make. It far outstrips garbage like incentives for individual businesses and other targeted tax breaks of subsidies for business.
All that said, he has to pay for it, and without a significant increase in general revenue funds, this initiative is probably impossible. As I often make the point, if you don’t balance the budget, social justice cannot be achieved because you limit the ability of future generations to continue worthwhile programs or ameliorate future social problems. The doomsayers go overboard in suggesting the state is about go under, but adding this kind of initiatives without increasing revenues will result in Really Bad Thing (TM) down the road.