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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (68788)12/27/1999 4:28:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The local school board is fine as long as its discretion in setting taxes is high enough. There are many farm districts almost without children who could easily afford great schools, but the farmers are so strapped (and so old) that you can't get it off the ground. My farm is in a county that has only one factory in it --- a broom factory (that competes with the products of Yugoslavia, for God's sake). My neighbor who had 20 acres lived all his life on soybeans and the proceeds of his son's 100 % disability from WWII. He had two retarded grandchildren who got no special education. The family made a little money cutting down and selling the wood from some of my disabled trees, and policing hickory nuts off my land for sale. (What the hell. I didn't need them, and had no hogs running loose. I was not about to vote to increase their property taxes. Local taxation is no basis for financing schools. Needs and property are usually inversely correlated.
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