Federal/State Funds Must Help Fund Public Schools. Property Tax Cannot Carry More & More Burden.

[TheMastersNemesis]

One reason that schools are short of funding is that property owners cannot pay for it all plus pay for infrastructure as well. For one property taxes alone or for majority of funding leads to unequal and widely disparate school quality. And many property owners and home owners feel maxed out. That feeling is why it is nearly impossible to pass a mill levy for schools even though school funding is badly needed.

One main reason is that corporations have been able to skip property taxes and local taxes since Reagan. More and more of the tax burden has fallen own property owners and regular workers as corporations and businesses has reduced their taxes. And we all know that most of those dollars end up in a bank overseas or somewhere else. Many large businesses of the franchise type take money out of the community. And when some large corporate outfit comes in they demand local tax incentives and write offs that take decades to pay. And the jobs created are often of questionable quality in the first place.

Look at the Wisconsin deal. It will take many years to offset the loss of local taxes. So the jobs are created, but these workers end up paying most of the taxes that have been lost. And that creates a shortfall that is never really made up.

Under Reaganomics businesses have been given more and more tax breaks. These breaks have not really resulted in more or better jobs for the most part.

It is a fairer system when property owners and businesses and the general public shares the burden. Right now property owners share more of the burden and cannot really fund schools on their own. Many areas of the country have extremely high property taxes as a result of this neglect.

[Major Nikon]

1. The system is and will remain fucked up

Basing school funding on property taxes insures more affluent areas have better schools. We are all created equal, unless you were created on the wrong side of the tracks.

[leanforward]

2. Hear, hear.

The corporations must share the social costs. After all, a corporation is the focal point of a good produced. The corporation must share in the property taxes of the municipality, county, and state where they are located. Not just be happy we're paying a wage. Is it a living wage?

Education costs must be shared by the State and federal government.

[backtoblue]

3. K&R