Re: Property Tax Cut and School Reforms - Special Session Complete

jimstevens wrote:

On Tue, 23 May 2006 07:30:46 -0400, Alan Lichtenstein <arl@xxxxxxx>
wrote:


Pete LaFlamme wrote:


As I understand the legislation school districts will be free to raise local school taxes to make up for any shortfalls.

In other words the taxing will shift right back to the school districts. Is this correct? If so, is this more smoke and mirrors?

Though so. Typical Republican distraction. Too bad the reactionaries don't understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch.


I think he is asking a question? Yes? Do you know anything about
this issue or are you just blowing it out your ass?

He's making a statement in the form of a question. Somewhat rhetorical and effectively pointing out the shortcomings in proposals that many jump to conclusions about before they have thought the thing through. Like you did in your post. Failure to delve into the issue more deeply is a general shortcoming of reactionaries. Like you. Because if you bothered to do a bit of thinking about the issue, you would likely have come to the same conclusion that both Pete and I did.

But you didn't, instead choosing to post your inanity which only served to display your political prejudices against Democrats.

I am very interested in the issue. Last summer my wife and I visited
San Antonio to purchase a retirement home. We found several we like.
However, they have a property tax crisis as that is the way they pay
for schools. We would have been paying 10-12 k per year. And it
increases every year at about 15% for past few years.

Education is indeed costly, as is the maintenance of a military. But we recognize that ALL citizens need to pay the costs for them because BOTH serve the needs of society and our Democratic form of Government. Although currently, the use of that military to wage an unnecessary war of aggression is indeed a downside to military spending. Since our educational systems have never waged any wars of aggression, apparently the moneys there haven't been misspent, as they were with our military.

You do the math. How can any retiree survive paying those kinds of
taxes every year? How can any homeowner survive in their own home for
an extended period of time paying more then quarter of million dollars
in 20 years to local jurisdiction?

You pay taxes because that's what it takes to fund the kind of services we need for our society. You get what you pay for, and if you can't pay the freight, you don't live there. That's America.

We turned around and came home instead of purchasing a home.

A wise decision. Perhaps you will now limit your search to those areas where your financial resources permit you to live.

Now, I will invite again to offer anything you may really know about
this issue. If you are just climbing your soapbox and crying, then
shove the box up your ass.

I don't know very much about this issue except that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The issue promises increased costs but also promises decreased revenues. That sort of doesn't add up by my way of rational thinking. But of course, you seem to think that raising that question is blowing something out of my ass.

Pity you don't do much thinking and blow something similar out of your ass. You might not wind up making such a fool of yourself then.
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