> It becomes the new normal, which means that if anybody wants to reverse course, the burden is on them to find alternative sources for $50-100MM in tax revenue

> It becomes the new normal, which means that if anybody wants to reverse course, the burden is on them to find alternative sources for $50-100MM in tax revenue. That "alternative source" is invariably tax increases. Politicians aren't terribly clever about these sorts of things. > And a major chunk of the tax revenue is explicitly earmarked for public education That's not at all an iron-clad guarantee of how the money is spent, you may want to look up e.g., the North Carolina Education Lottery.