Learn and Earn Ads Misleading

The new ads to support the Learn and Earn slot machine proposal are misleading at best critics claim. The new ads talk about the scholarships that will be funded by Issue 3, but they don’t mention slot machines. They say that Issue 3 will fund scholarships without a tax increase, and urge people to vote yes. At no point does it mention that in order to get that money you have to allow slot machines in and this is making a lot of people unhappy.

The backers know that people in Ohio keep voting down slot machines, so critics say they are trying to get people to vote yes for school money, but aren’t telling them that by voting yes they are actually bringing in slot machines to pay for it. The group is assuming that Ohioans will gamble $2.8 billion a year to pay for $852.6 million in scholarships. That seems to be a big extreme by many standards.

They also say that every child would get to go to college, but that isn’t true either. Only those kids who graduate in 2009 or later, pass a college-readiness program, take advanced placement courses, and participate in extracurricular volunteer activities would be eligible. The problem with that is that not every school offers those things, so unless you are fortunate enough to go to one of the schools that do, you cannot get the scholarship. Those that are home schooled are not eligible at all, and those that want to go to a school out of the state would not be eligible either.

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