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February 07, 2008
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Where does this per-pupil "state grant" money come from? What are the "existing and additional broad-base tax revenues" that this plan talks about?
Pushing special ed costs to the state level is just shifting the blame. This plan also dodges the obvious need for school district consolidation. Pandering will get us nowhere IMO.
Posted by: Mister Guy | February 07, 2008 at 06:46 PM
What is it that some don't get about "equal education opportunity?" I realize that many of the readers of this post will suggest that equal does not mean money, but I quickly point out that none have suggested a better measure. Thus, as soon as you introduce a "local school property tax" equal goes out the window. I also understand that many on this site fail, or simply refuse, to recognize that currently there is no "local school property tax" in Vermont. We simply have a "statewide education property tax." Now if you wish to advocate for a different way of redistributing "statewide education taxes" while eliminating the possiblilty of unleveling the playing field via "local school taxes", I might be more interested in your ideas. Unfortunately, all I have seen to date is repeated efforts to return to the "rich get to keep while the poor don't get" tax schemes of yesteryear. It ain't gonna happin!
Posted by: G. Cross | February 07, 2008 at 10:17 PM
The plan looks good on paper to me. How do the economists like it?
Mr. Cross is so right in saying that what we have is a "statewide education property tax." The reason we have such a system is because we want to achieve absolute equality in education from town to town. This view is Socialism, pure and simple. The idea that Johnny in Nowheresville must have all the advantages that Janey in Norwich has, is ridiculous. Life is not about absolutely equal outcomes for everybody. Nor can the state make it so, no matter how hard it tries.
The Left likes equal outcomes (for everyone except their own kids, of course), because it reduces the body politic to an undifferentiated mass - a mass they can dominate politically. It's a Socialist model that must be fought at every turn, lest we become another East Germany or Cuba.
Posted by: Jon Harrison | February 08, 2008 at 09:42 AM
Wow...very hyperbolic ... equality = Socialism ... interesting...
Posted by: Mister Guy | February 08, 2008 at 10:34 AM