Yeah, charge larger families for the fact that our state hasn't has the balls to step up to the government. Now's the time with the government worrying about it's own bottom line, they don't have the money to pay for what they have much less go after the 17+ states taking on the US government. Granted, the judicial system is the business that strives no matter the economical situation. Hopefully this helps reduce that business some.

Wonder what a modest amount is, considering the popularity of the device he should get more than just a modest royalty paid.

Like banks does this mean they are going to give the administrative staff raises? Sorry but for a principal to make nearly a 6 digit salary (on average they earn $70,000) has often made me wonder where the justification is. Especially when they apparently only strive to make little kids cry by intimidating them in diverse ways. Eliminate the administrative staff making more than $45,000 and you will see some difference. But for 500 employees to be laid off to make the $30,000,000 budget shortfall it's obvious that administrators aren't among the soon to be looking for a job. Lessons to learn in our fine country, become some sort of regulator or government employee and when everyone else loses their jobs you get a raise.

Good point, I too started my education in Utah but went to inner city schools most the time. With the exception of a few years in DODDs school district which gave me perpsective on things. The DODDs school was top notch and competitive in all areas (including sports) and funny thing is it was actually fun. What made the difference? Probably dollars, or at least better teachers and educators. But you spend time in inner city schools and you realize it is just a factory to keep you busy and out of trouble but not actually challenge or prepare you for the future. I continue my education paying for it myself and the biggest appeal of college was the area of freedom to take what you needed and wanted (not found in high school). Unfortunately even higher education is horribly unbalanced when it comes to sports. The only thing that compares is research and unlike research sports doesn't really give back to the institution in a way that will benefit both students and educators. Granted a large majority of this comes from parents who encourage things that will not help their child. Sports are important as physical activity is one of the biggest keys to preventative medicine, but only if you the individual are actually participating in the sport (with the exception of hockey I don't see any sport that the spectator gets any increase in heart rate). Instead the easy answer to our financial whoa is eliminate the wasteful years of education and continue to spend money on luxuries like sports thinking that is some how going to carry us through.

Perhaps we should re-evaluate all the spending on education and just get our younger Americans ready for reality. We are going to see a great collapse and they are most likely going to live a life of poverty than before as the lower class continues to grow and the middle and upper class shrink. Our government has rewarded the pathetic excuses for business and taught our younger citizens something that decades of brainwashing won't erase and that is the government will still from the rich and everyone if you need it. Taxation without representation is once again common in this country. Just like taxing something over and over again each time it is passed from hand to hand is the same as the government charging the rich (or so they say, the math just doesn't add up) simply because the "poor" deserve it. The dollars and emphasis have not been in education for some time now and instead of pushing for that to change we are simply looking at giving up. Stop rediculous spending in education (like building a new building when you already have one and it works fine) and start being fiscally responsible. The dollars in sports on both K-12 and higher education is the perfect example of money being wasted. Just as the community center I lived above in an inner city investing in recording equipment thinking the kids would benefit from making music when less than a percent of a percent would even get a job from it, same goes for our focus (dollars) on sports. But we'll never part with our addiction to sports just as ancient Romans didn't and it will cost our society dearly.

No, he wants to add more BS to the original legislation. Get some balls and tell the goobernant where to stick it. We don't need our government to look out for us in every single little thing and that includes this particular area. If parents thought there was no manual on raising kids they have not been watching stuff coming from our polyticks, now before having a kid you would be wise to review at least all the laws that dictate what you can and cannot do as a parent. It will help increase the judicial business of fining people as it is now looking at economical hardships. At this rate you will see having to take a parental test as part of your high school education (oh wait that is already happening). Fact of the matter is you don't answer one extreme by another. Those who are already putting their kids in seatbelts don't need some police officer to come along and tell you that while you are following the law and have your kid seat belted you are still getting cited because they are not in the currently approved additional seatbooster/device. By introducing more things to a safety system you are in fact increasing the likelihood that it is not going to be safe. Go to the hospital and ask for the childseat instructor and you will see that 75-90% of all who are using boosterseats are not using them correctly and most likely putting their kid in greater danger by doing so. We could go on, this is just BS and needs the plug pulled (our reason was other states were stupid enough to do it so we should do it). Stupid is what stupid does.