[Peace-discuss] taxes for school

[E. Wayne Johnson]

The lottery is a tax on foolishness.

Karen Medina wrote:
> 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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