A donviti Challenge to all!!!
You tell me if you can find anything on www.delawareonline.com about yesterdays Vote to raise property taxes in Brandywine Hundred a couple cents per $100 in order to raise money for the School District.
I’ll be damned if I can find anything in there
I voted yes, yesterday by the way. We here in Delaware enjoy extremely low taxes (yes I know we have an income tax too) our public schools could use the money and as a parent that uses, will use them I am in favor of improving my school district.
What do you win if you find an article? a date with Tommy?
Tags: Education, Local Media Sucks!
Voters to School Children: Make Do
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/NEWS03/704250398/1006/NEWS
Kind of a sassy headline for the snooze journal.
dang, that didn’t take long enough…
in an effort to avoid embarrasment I’m deleting this post 🙂
Maybe control of the News Journal web site was temporarily transferred to the Republican Party.
It happens.
Look at the quotes in the article from the people who voted No. They are retirees or working people who simply can’t afford a tax increase.
Clearly we are asking the wrong people for the money.
There used to be an expression that the only thing that can slow growth is the lack of roads and sewers.
Things have changed. Now, the only way to slow growth is to vote no in a school district referendum. That it is too little too late is true enough, but it is the only way people get a voice. Governmets and their bureaucrats don’t seem to have this figured out. If they are not looking at the pattern of revolt as a clue, they should.
I had a conversation with a small group in the county-public growth planning committee on this subject. The direcor of “NCC’s Growth Society” (The Committee of 100) said that this crisis of property school taxes happened during the Hockessin growth spurt of the 80’s and we got out of it OK. They end up voting for the increase in time.”