The Advocate yesterday wrote in the editorial column about a plan by an Ohio legislator in ensure increased spending on education.
Senator Schuring of Stark County would use fixed percentages from certain revenue sources. As these revenues increase, so would the amount of money going to schools. The Advocate likes the idea, as do I.
But the Advocate implies that this plan will relieve the property tax burden and the need for schools to sell their levies to voters.
I guarantee it will not. School administrator mentality doesn't work that way. When schools, like government itself, get more money they will spend it and want even more. More money coming from the state won't stop nor slow levies, not until there is a mandate to do so: a law that sets forth spending restrictions and caps on property taxes.
Such a mandate should become part of any new tax plan benefiting schools. Otherwise, nothing will change; just more and more from taxpayers to schools.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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