[Peace-discuss] taxes for school

[E. Wayne Johnson]

These unfunded mandates I hear about all the time.  What we need is 
enough local people with enough back bone to tell them to shove their 
unfunded mandates.
A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves.

There is a modest short term kick back to the property tax payer but it 
is small and short term while the sales tax, like a dream, goes on for ever.

I consider the civic education of my family to be my personal 
responsibility and we try to tell the children that it is their 
responsibility to
educate themselves.  So far we are pleased.

I handed out copies of the bill of rights at the farmers market GOP 
tent.  Some said that they hadn't
seen it since high school.  A few people actually told me that they 
didnt agree with some line items in the bill of rights!!!!!

Bob Illyes wrote:
> I don't recall where I saw the item about reducing property tax if the 
> sales tax for education goes through, though I think it was in the 
> News-Gazette. This would not be the first time that knee-jerk "if it 
> says it's for education it must be good" thinking was rampant.
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> So far as school funding goes, the unfunded mandates such as special 
> education have meant for a long time that all new money goes into the 
> mandates, and the expenditure for the median student in real dollars 
> keeps going down. I'm not making this up- my wife was a public high 
> school teacher and administrator, and knows the figures.
>
> Universal suffrage requires public education. But the failures of 
> public education are staggering. Kids routinely graduate without 
> knowing either what the Bill of Rights says or what it means..... With 
> this going on, the republic is in serious peril.
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> Bob
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