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- From: fred_s@earwax.pei.com (Fred Scott)
- Subject: Re: California Public Schools Funding: A Materplan for Failure
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.014128.23994@pei.com>
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- Organization: Idiots Incorporated
- References: <1e3iqqINNt42@mizar.usc.edu> <5649@bacon.IMSI.COM> <1ebmclINNcef@skat.usc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:41:28 GMT
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- In article <1ebmclINNcef@skat.usc.edu> walker@skat.usc.edu (Michael D Walker) writes:
- >In article <5649@bacon.IMSI.COM> jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
- >>This is news to me. Prop 13 showed clearly that California taxpayers
- >>would rather have lower property taxes than good schools.
- >
- >No. They realized their money was being wasted on school bureaucrats,
- >poor teachers, kids with bad parents, or to subsidize the rich with
- >the UC system.
-
- Oh, I get it. So, to improve the situation, they cut down the funding to
- improve the schools! Makes sense to me...
-
- Bullshit - they did nothing of sort. Californians are like Pavlov's dogs or
- rats running around in an electrified maze. They let themselves get conditioned
- to believe that if you vote for things like proposition 13, you get more money!
- Simple as that...nothing more to it. Everyone has more money and it must come
- from nowhere. After all, we can't *see* what taxes do, so they must be wasted
- by a bunch of incompetant idiots we can't see and never met.
-
- >Thowing money at it hasn't worked. What I'm hearing is that CA is
- >spending more on schools now then in the past, but the standards keep
- >dropping.
-
- I know - lots of people have heard that and like to remember it. It makes nice
- dogma when you're voting yourself less taxes. Minor things like proof of that
- concept (like, some DOCUMENTATION, buster) and a *real* solution to the
- problem, are of course left to someone else who has more time than you do. In
- the absense of such a person, just cutting taxes must be the answer.
-
- Fred
-