In July, I wrote about how the New Hampshire state government can provide funding for an adequate education without a broad-based tax. In fact, it’s possible with no new sources of income — just taxes we've had this decade at the rates we've had as well.
How about, the more kids you have the more you pay. Seniors and childless families pay nothing.
How about putting a cap on voucher elegability, if your income is more than the cap you dont get one. Electricity is an essential element, there shoukd be no tax on it, and the companies providing it should do so at cost to keep rates down. Same with wi fi, internet. And seniors should not be subject to interest and dividends tax ! Tax was already paid on that investment once, it should never be taxed again. You people are crazy ! Keep smoking that pot ! And you pay the tax on it !
In response, let me leave you with three quotes from the famed Economist Thomas Sowell:
“When all else fails, spokesmen and apologists for the education establishment blame a lack of money—often expressed as a lack of ‘commitment’ by the public or the government—for their problems. The issue is posed as how ‘serious’ the public, or its political leaders, are about ‘investing’ in the education of the next generation. This cleverly turns the tables on critics and loads guilt onto the tax-paying public for the failures of American schools and colleges. Implicit in all this is the wholly unsupported assumption that more money means better education. Neither comparisons among states, comparisons over time, nor international comparisons, lend any credence to this arbitrary (and self-serving) assumption.”
“The responses of the educational establishment to the academic deficiencies of their students today include (1) secrecy, (2) camouflage, (3) denial, (4) shifting the blame elsewhere, and (5) demanding more money.”
“Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called ‘educators’ in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools…. Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.”
If New Hampshire, as well as the rest of the Country, expects the current public education system to improve without a total and complete change in the existing paradigm, then they are just avoiding the facts and stats. Public education is on a self-perpetuating, rapid decline. When administrators and "specialists" suck away dollars, teachers' intellectual competencies decline, and social education/activism (indoctrination) becomes the priority, then the compact between public education and the public has failed.
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Keep smoking that.pot ! NO MORE TAXES !
How about, the more kids you have the more you pay. Seniors and childless families pay nothing.
How about putting a cap on voucher elegability, if your income is more than the cap you dont get one. Electricity is an essential element, there shoukd be no tax on it, and the companies providing it should do so at cost to keep rates down. Same with wi fi, internet. And seniors should not be subject to interest and dividends tax ! Tax was already paid on that investment once, it should never be taxed again. You people are crazy ! Keep smoking that pot ! And you pay the tax on it !
In response, let me leave you with three quotes from the famed Economist Thomas Sowell:
“When all else fails, spokesmen and apologists for the education establishment blame a lack of money—often expressed as a lack of ‘commitment’ by the public or the government—for their problems. The issue is posed as how ‘serious’ the public, or its political leaders, are about ‘investing’ in the education of the next generation. This cleverly turns the tables on critics and loads guilt onto the tax-paying public for the failures of American schools and colleges. Implicit in all this is the wholly unsupported assumption that more money means better education. Neither comparisons among states, comparisons over time, nor international comparisons, lend any credence to this arbitrary (and self-serving) assumption.”
“The responses of the educational establishment to the academic deficiencies of their students today include (1) secrecy, (2) camouflage, (3) denial, (4) shifting the blame elsewhere, and (5) demanding more money.”
“Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called ‘educators’ in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools…. Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.”
If New Hampshire, as well as the rest of the Country, expects the current public education system to improve without a total and complete change in the existing paradigm, then they are just avoiding the facts and stats. Public education is on a self-perpetuating, rapid decline. When administrators and "specialists" suck away dollars, teachers' intellectual competencies decline, and social education/activism (indoctrination) becomes the priority, then the compact between public education and the public has failed.
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