[Peace-discuss] taxes for school

[C. G. Estabrook]

I thought it was a tax on those who don't understand math.


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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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