Lower taxes, better schools (in Arizona, not California)

Riverside Press-Enterprise ^ | 1/22/06 | Mary Bender

[Gaetano]

Races in Buckeye:

White Non-Hispanic (57.3%)
Hispanic (36.7%)
Other race (19.3%)
Black (3.4%)
American Indian (2.6%)
Two or more races (2.5%)


D'oh

[NormsRevenge]

Your point in posting that?

Thanks!

[Carry_Okie]

His children love their new school and hometown. "We basically live out in the country. Our development is new and it's rural all around us," said Saitman, who has started a pest-control company in Arizona.

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Meanwhile, Buckeye won't be rural much longer. The town Web site, using information provided by the Chamber of Commerce, states that the population is expected to explode, reaching 100,000 by 2010.

You have only to wait, turkey. Every one of California's problems will follow you to Arizona. Then where will you run?

These weenies who flee rather than fight really gall me. By running, they concede an unbreakable and enormously valuable power base to the Slave Party, not recognizing that the infection will merely follow them. As if the election of Napolitano wasn't enough of an indication of what's in store for Arizona.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Didn't the headline mention taxes? Is it just me not able to read that part?

[skinkinthegrass]

Actually...
NormsRevenge, has a point..the thread was on taxes, not ethnicity. (just commenting :))

[RLM]

You make two good points, but you over simplify the solution. I don’t know where Saitman will run next given the current invasion. Given the political climate, I certainly can’t answer that question. Still it’s a good question.

With regard to staying behind for the fight, perhaps some of us have looked at the insurmountable odds and have decided to cut our losses and run. Where to run is still a problem. I agree the fight is necessary, but I’ve been there and lost. Given the proliferation of new laws in California affecting my trade, I’ve testified at hearings, submitted arguments, and challenged unsubstantiated assumptions that justified changes in law. Unfortunately, our legislature is deaf, except to the sound of money. So, perhaps you’re right, we should stay behind for the noble fight, or perhaps it is more prudent to look at the odds and run, and survive to fight another day in another place. I, for one, am worn out from the fight I’ve already waged, so I may also join the “weenies” and run.

[NormsRevenge]

That was why I am hoping for an expansion on the posting.

Obviously Arizona can as easily make claim to a diverse population,including illegals.

Maybe the implication is that what california suffers today isn't that far down the road in AZ so moving is just an futile attempt to seek greener grass elsewhere only to eventually see it brown out there as well.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I was curious because taxes in my area are outrageous.

[Mr. Jeeves]

You have only to wait, turkey. Every one of California's problems will follow you to Arizona. Then where will you run?

Marxists have learned very well how to disguise themselves as "soccer moms in tennis shoes who care about our schools and people like me", so when candidates like that start running for office in Arizona and suburban female voters eat it up, California-style problems will indeed follow. Unless the voting base wises up. The election of Napolitano was not a hopeful sign for Arizona.

[Carry_Okie]

I agree the fight is necessary, but I’ve been there and lost.

I understand the sentiment, my family having lived in California for five generations. As to solutions, I've offered more than my share. The real problem is that conservatives don't understand how freedom works to solve social problems well enough to sell the idea to the ignorant. I'm working on that now.

[Old Flat Toad]

Buckeye is in Maricopa county. Maricopa's taxes are lower because of unequal distrubution of tax revenues. The rest of the state gets porked for Maricopa.

[NormsRevenge]

maricopa is also the most heavily populated, correct?

What part of AZ do you hail from?

[Hildy]

I don't know about the better education part..I told this on another thread, but it's appropriate here too.

Last week I was at my local community college...just doing some research on a possible career change. I saw a poster about Elementary school teachers. I asked the counselor what I would have to do to become a teacher. She asked me if I had a BA...I said yes. She said send your transcripts to the State Board and they'll hire you. I was incredulous..I asked if there's something I actually have to know about teaching elementary kids. She said, NOPE. She said they're taking people off busses for emergency teachers because they don't have enough. this is Arizona. She said the pay is so low, nobody wants to do it. I am still spinning from this conversation.

[Gaetano]

Habla Espanol ?

Buckeye Elementary School 2004 data from greatschools.net:
Ethnicity This School vs. State Average

Hispanic or Latino 55% 39%
White (not Hispanic) 37% 47%
Black or African-American (not Hispanic) 5% 6%
American Indian or Alaskan Native 2% 6%
Asian or Pacific Islander <1% 2%

[Old Flat Toad]

Correct. I'm from the second most populated area. The smaller the county (pop wise) the less of every tax dollar comes back to that county.

[Hildy]

WOW! I did take a semester of Spanish because if you live in the Southwest, it doesn't hurt to know it. We've all accepted that. I plan on continuing via internet this semester.

[Hildy]

WOW! I did take a semester of Spanish because if you live in the Southwest, it doesn't hurt to know it. We've all accepted that. I plan on continuing via internet this semester.

[szweig]

"Where I come from diversity means you have to lock your bike up." - Fred Reed

[CheyennePress]

Arizona's schools rank at the very bottom in terms of national testing standards. Even worse than California.
If I'm not mistaken, they were 49th last year.

Funny, New Mexico was near the bottom, too. Must be something about the Southwest.

Things, of course, weren't always like that. At least before the invasion, anyway.