[Peace-discuss] local issues

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe in them.

Property taxes are as close as we come to wealth taxes (and we should come closer).

Disparities in school funding need to be equalized at the state (or federal) 
level, not by a regressive local tax.  --CGE


Neil Parthun wrote:
> Bruno Behrend, a far right radio show host whose show I was on a few 
> years ago, is for the Con Con.  So, I'm against it.
> 
> And while sales taxes are regressive, it is also fundamentally unfair to 
> put most of a school's funding on property taxes.  Poorer districts have 
> significant difficulty in getting funding for their buildings due to 
> such economic setups.  Illinois is a state that has some of the most 
> fundamental disparities in school funding between districts. 
> 
> Its not the act of seeing with our own eyes alone; its correctly 
> comprehending what we see,
>                     
>      Neil
> 
>  We absolutely have to refuse to attribute any kind of permanency to 
> that which is simply because it is.
> [angela v. davis, 1944-]
> 
> Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some 
> blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. 
> Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a 
> spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
> [ralph waldo emerson, 1803-1882]