[Peace-discuss] taxes for school

[Karen Medina]

We all benefit from educating our children. While the tax needs to be 
progressive, I think this particular sales tax comes close to being progressive: it 
taxes only certain items. However, my hesitation comes from the fact that I 
think the school board is trying to get around the fact that the last property tax 
for the schools was turned down -- they tied it to a new school where nobody 
lived and scoffed at the consent decree. 

I agree with Carl that school funding should be equalized on a higher level, but 
the Federal government ties the funding to the No Child Left Behind -- which is 
better than it used to be but still leaves a lot to be desired. 

I also agree that it would be hard to make sure the money actually goes to 
education -- I remember well the failed promises of the lottery. Though a tax 
on foolishness would be somewhat poetic if it paid for wisdom.

-karen medina
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:33:40 -0500
>From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] local issues  
>To: Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>
>Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>, Barbara kessel 
<barkes at gmail.com>
>
>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]
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