[Peace-discuss] taxes for school

[E. Wayne Johnson]

At least its a tax on those who dont understand probability.

But as Eugene Burkholder says,
if knowledge were everything,
doctors wouldn't smoke [cigarettes].

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> I thought it was a tax on those who don't understand math.
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> 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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