Say Anything Blog

When you have Fargo building new schools like mad in the newer perts of town, all while the overall number of student in Fargo decreases, it is not wonder the cost of education goes up.

How many of these mid-sized towns have new middle schools are almost like Saddam’s palaces?

Does every room really need a $3,000 digital project to teach kids how to read and write poorly?

If the quality of the product and the effective use of dollars increase as fast as spending, no one here would have a problem with more state funding - but the same local officials that have caused property taxes to increase have not spent the dollars wisely.

Those local officials need a swift slap upside the head and a hard kick to the curb.

I don’t disagree with your point freep, but it seems to me that the increased property taxes on the new houses in that development should go a long way towards paying for the new schools. 

That means existing homes shouldn’t be bearing that much of the cost for building new schools. 

Coupling that with your point I think that shows they’ve really been spending like mad to jack up property taxes like they have.

Another issue of course is that the state’s funding is based on the number of students to a large degree.  The locals don’t want to make any hard choices (which is their job)and downsize any schools.  It’s easier for them just to jack up everyone’s taxes.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Merle Boucher is just another useful idiot for the out-of-state labor union bosses!
Why in the world are taxpayers putting up with a bunch of people who work part time hours for full time pay and benefits?

The biggest problem in all of this is that no one is willing to look at school spending.  It’s like school spending is untouchable.  We can’t cut it, we can only raise it.

That’s nonsense.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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"increased property taxes on the new houses”
Recently I was told that because of deferred taxes on new homes in towns with a lot of new developement, such as West Fargo,they will actually be considered a “poor district” and will benefit greatly under the new school plan. Is this so?

I wasn’t aware that that was that much of a problem.  I had thought that the city governments gave away the tax incentives but the schools still got their share.

Frankly I don’t know.

I do think that just because the city of West Fargo decides not to tax taxable property is no excuse for the rest of us to pony up for them.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

This is the way a touchy problem gets fixed by the politicians--make it look like we are doing something.  Make no mistake--if money comes from the state coffers--the strings will soon follow.  It is a stealth attack without the legislature directly confronting the problem.

Halatbis, I don’t see how the legislature can ‘fix’ the problem of local property taxes in any other way.

They didn’t create the problem, the locals did.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.