Personally, I would love to see an end to education funding through property taxes. A better distribution of responsibility would be through sales tax adjustments.
Counties should have to pay their own way!
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Yay, boo, whatever.
Not sure what this means for me, personally, except that I’m sure that they’ll find a way to claw even more dough out of me than the obscene amounts they get now.
THAT much is a given.
“.. a Travis County judge...”
Or a trained monkey ...
That sounds like a good plan to me! Redistribution sux!
When will free or nearly free education on the internet make the brick and mortar schools obsolete?
Re: de facto state property tax
The only reason it could be considered a state property tax is because some other judge previously decided that local property taxes should be redistributed to the poorer school districts.
CORRECT!!!
If they try to install Common Core, all bets are off. Period!!
This may actually lower property taxes.
Kerr County here. Believe me - we do ... and then some.
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A better distribution of responsibility would be through sales tax adjustments
No, on number of children you have, maybe like a tuition would be better.
I am tired of funding the family that has 13 kids, on welfare and WICS and keeps having babies.
Let them pay directly for each of their lil brats.
Do away with the English as second language" (ESL) program and a lot of unneeded positions will go away. I remember years ago when our district got a letter from some ISD in south Texas thanking us for paying for their new computers, while our ISD had an outdated computer lab.
The only fair tax is “PAY AS YOU GO.”
Your kid goes to public school, YOU, not everyone who now pays forever, pay a tax to send them through.
Back as far as the late 1950’s the cost of educating your child was REASONABLE. From that time on, the unbelieveable waste, corruption, State, Local and Federal regulations, and the cost of administration of our schools has blossomed into a “skunk cabbage” that now stinks to high heaven.
If you have one (or two) kids (which is reasonable and financially feasible) you should bear the cost of their public education for the duration they use the service...not others who have not used the system at all. If you have 10-15 little brats, live on welfare, and steal from the taxpayers on all levels, you should be made to work and pay your (and your kids) way.
Our schools systems are like a vacuum cleaner sucking up money and providing really nothing more than Political indoctrinational brainwashing for our children.
Go back to the schools I came up in; those that taught the basics and vocational skills. The most memorable statement I ever heard was “Learn the basics and everything else will take care of itself.” A statement long lost on the entitlement society.
I have a better idea.
Get the government out of the education business entirely.