Investment equals Taxes
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WPS had an hour on education today. Stan Johnson, president of WEAC was on with a bigwig from WI Assoc. of School Board. The crying about finances started immediately. Johnson thought the word taxes should be replaced with investment.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve already recalibrated my vocabulary so that revenue and investment means taxes when the words are used by government agencies. I kept waiting for the conversation to drift into ways of saving money in education. Instead the talk centered on the northen and rural districts losing enrollment and, of course, money from the state and how unfair the state revenue…I mean investments, was distributed.
A teacher from Milwaukee called, but I won’t mention what she said. You know the litany.
Whatever happened to the idea of putting the teacher’s health plan into the state plan. Last I heard there would be a $100 million saving state wide.
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Bob, here in Hudson the school administration and the board are now referring to taxpayers as “stakeholders”. I have made a lot of investments in my life time and even have taken a stake in some private ventures. Unlike our schools or any other government investment, I have taken risk voluntarily and have been able to sell my shares through the operations of the free market. The Hudson School District has made a “profit” of over 16 million dollars over the last several years. You would think they would pay some annual dividends to us “stakeholders”.
It is either sheer ignorance [in the case of some politicians] or more than likely a ruse on the ignorant in society when government politicos and bureaucrats attempt to use terminology which only pertains to actions of the private sector. It is even more folly when government tries to emulate programs which competitive businesses practice. Again, the Hudson School District is starting a program based on a practice found at General Electric [I believe]. Here is a better idea: if schools want to imitate business, then they can start by opening up education to free economic choice; just like you would find in the private sector. And they can start by letting us “stakeholders” freely choose where we want to invest our money.
Bob, do you really think that school districts have the words ‘SAVING’ ‘COST REDUCTION’ ‘ECONOMIZE’ in their vocabulary? Ha!
Bob, it’s worse than you think. The drumb beat has already started at the federal level for more funding of higher education. You know what the big push is now? In places such as Mexifornia, where they have roughly 50% of their population now made up of hispanics (what percentage is illegal I do not know, but it is substantial), there is a big push to create college availability (read, free of charge) to this huge, relatively new influx of poor Americans (illegals and the soon to be amnestized). Higher education is just the tip of the iceberg. From housing to health care, the ticket price of President Bush’s amnestification program is staggering. Senator Sessions has a great report on his website for anyone interested.
Mexico gets about $20 billion dollars per year sent back to it by illegal aliens who come here to work. That’s 20 billion dollars of capital that is leaving America and going into the corrupt Mexican economy and government. Either one of two things has to happen – either Mexico has to make direct payments of at least 10 billion per year back to us for all of the future costs President Bush would have us assume with his amnestizing program, and costs we are incurring right now, or we have to seal the border and exportate several millon…
Bottom line is that we will not be able to pay for all of the additional social security, health care (medicare), K-12, and now higher education… we can’t afford the interventionist nightmare we have right now and there are people panhandling to the federal government under the veil of higher education as we speak.
I think conn has a point about the gun shows! LOL Imagine the scenario if President Hillary Clinton and a Democrat Congress starts to run the show…..?
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