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To: Sunny who wrote (172827)	7/7/2006 4:00:16 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793731

No one ever thinks of spending less except for the citizens who pay the bulk of the taxes. The legislatures pay lip service to us but depend on the lightly or un taxed voters to keep their jobs. They all want our money. I saw how this worked when I was president of a Homeowner's association in the 60s and our county supervisor would us to support the levying of special district taxes. These were a few pennys a thousand, but they added up. I will never forget setting in a meeting with our board members where everyone said, "oh, keep the tax the same, if we lower it, we will have a tough time raising it later." That was back in the 60s, before I went anarchist. :>)

To: Sunny who wrote (172827)	7/7/2006 4:52:38 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793731

most of property taxes go to support schools. the schools are self serving. your activists in school boards usually have a special interest like their kids going to the school. so they want the best for the children. also good schools in theory raise property values as others who want good schools go to these districts and buy. then you have more who moved into the area because of the schools and education system. all those folks want more programs hence more taxes on your house. now people who get hurt are low income who own , elderly who lived for many years in that neighborhood and now are getting pushed out because of demand for housing and school upgrades. Schools also create the imbalance in our education system. it those who can afford large property taxes to foot the bills for pc's larger teacher student ratios.. etc so the higher income help their kids by providing better public education at the expense of others vs sending them to private schools. the lower income people suffer with less paid teachers, less school supplies etc.. our education system is not fair and balanced.