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Originally Posted by Kirk Freeman  State congress? You mean the General Assembly? 
The responsibility for the property tax mess is the person in the mirror. If your local schools were not Taj Mahals and you did not fall for the knee-jerk nonsense of the "save the children" rubbish, we would not have property taxes or an increased sales tax.
Giving money to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. |
Thank you Kirk for the clarification.
You are absolutely right on the schools situation, although not
this person in the mirror. Myself and a bunch of other tax payers successfully beat down an unnecessary proposed multimillion $ new school in our county.
The sad thing is that we pay our school administrators to do the best thing for the school and part of that is the "we must spend the money or it will go away" attitude. The way the system is now, a frugal administrator and school board is perceived as neglecting the children, letting $'s that could have come to the district go elsewhere.
The whole school money system is about as easy to understand as the tax code. I believe this is intentional, so that the average person is perplexed. The most noticable examples are the major building/remodeling expenitures, only to later lay off teachers (or threaten to) for lack of funding.
We need to have some politicians that will run on fixing this system and tie it to the property tax "crisis."