Posted on 01/23/2007 5:59:31 AM PST by knowseverything
Over 200 years ago, a group of ticked off New Englanders stormed the docks of Boston Harbor in disguise, and proceeded to fling the contents of the tea ships overboard. What could have possibly provoked such an egregious reaction from the public you ask? The answer was.. an unrepresentative tax on their favorite social beverage.
As I review my income and tax records for 2006, I am wondering why the same outrage is not felt today. I again realize looking at my past years' documents that every year I pay multiple thousands of dollars to a school district so that they can repay me with the service of screwing up my neighbor's kids. I then look at my income records and realize that I could really use those funds to replace the thousands of dollars I also pay to have my children privately educated. So what is an honest, concerned American to do? If I dress up like an Indian and throw my neighbors kids in the pond behind my house I will surely be arrested and locked away. Patriotism just isn't appreciated for what it is anymore.
Seriously though, there is no more blatant an example of thievery than this. With so many people sacrificing so much to either home school or put their kids in Christian schools, it is absolutely immoral for the government to steal their hard earned income and use it for the mis education of people unwilling to make this sacrifice. The ironic thing about homeschooling and Christian school attending parents is that these are the families also most likely to make the sacrifice of having only one income so that the mother may actually...hold on here folks...stay home and raise their children. So if anyone's pocketbook could stomach having thousands stolen from them every year, it should be the dual income people who actually don't mind the money being spent to ruin their children's future. Even the liberals should be able to get on board with that one.
Last year the Southern Baptist Convention came out with the jewel of wisdom that Christian parents should continue to send their kids to public schools to be a shining example for the other children. They somehow came to the conclusion that we should send our children into an environment where not only a majority of their peers are against their values, but the establishment itself is out to destroy them. Don't get me wrong, I believe strongly in the budding moral character of my children. However, I also think my oldest son is a fast runner, but doesn't mean I will tie ribeyes around his neck and throw him into a cage of lions. Sending your child to Sunday school one hour a week, and then to a public school 40 hours a week where he/she will be taught contradictory themes, it isn't difficult to see how so many young ones are being led astray.
While currently brooding over the past years financial crime, I am still trying to stay optimistic, however. After all, as I try to convey to my children, attitude is everything. A bad one, no matter the reason, will reflect badly on you. So I take comfort in the hope that young adults with a strong set of values, and solid character will be rare and thus highly valued in about 20 years. That way I can rely on their unusually high incomes for my retirement, and may not have to work until I'm 90, and/or live in an RV.
-knowseverything
Check www.hjta.org for ideas and methods to fight the tax raisers - start a Howard Jarvis style tax revolt in your state. Jarvis saved me thousands on my property tax bill with his Prop 13.
"The ironic thing about homeschooling and Christian school attending parents is that these are the families also most likely to make the sacrifice of having only one income so that the mother may actually...hold on here folks...stay home and raise their children."
Call me old fashioned, or just old. I have felt for many years, that when a majority of mothers are working outside the home, the majority of homes have little or no family leadership.
Excellent rant. Amen.
Milwaukee has a $1 billion dollar public school budget, funded on the backs of taxpayers. The total comes to about $11,000 per student, when in reality only $2,500 or so makes it to classrooms, with $8,000 per student lost in transit.
And yet, we're told the answer to "fixing" the schools is to raise taxes -- often we're told via a television, print and billboard advertising campaign that the school runs ... presumably with the $8,000 + per student in "administrative fees."
Those who participated in the "tea party" were subject to arrest and imprisonment - their patriotism was not appreciated by the crown of England.
Nothing has changed except we have swapped the crown in England for a creeping fascism that is home grown.
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