The biggest factor is income. The higher the state's per capita income, the higher the percentage that goes into the pot.

I've gone back to work because I can't afford to live on a fixed income. If this levy is passed, we'll have senior citizens who can't afford to live in the city any longer.

In a business with zero income until liquidation, what are your resources? What are your abilities to borrow? Without that, you'll never make it.

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

It's nice to give them an opportunity to have some input and really do something, something that low-income people often don't get the opportunity to do.