Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: school taxes Message-ID: <412@cepu.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 12:51:55 EST Article-I.D.: cepu.412 Posted: Mon Nov 12 12:51:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Nov-84 04:36:33 EST References: <419@hogpd.UUCP> <205@desint.UUCP> Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 32 Summary: In article <205@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes: >In article <419@hogpd.UUCP> smuga@hogpd.UUCP (J.SMUGA) writes: > >>I have heard people object to paying school taxes on the grounds >>that they have no children in public school. I do have children >>in public school, so I'm not very objective on this subject. >>I'd like to see some discussion of it here. > >Well, I don't have any kids [...] Prop. 13, we dropped from one of the top >school spenders to 49th. Businesses soon noticed that they couldn't get >the benefits of good universities and public education, and started >locating their plants elsewhere. I agree with you that public education is for the general benifit, but mainly it is to the benifit of the State (educated people make more money, and hence pay more taxes), and to me since it should (theoreticly) lower my tax rate. But Geoff, that Prop 13 statment's a CROCK. (1) it's only been 6 years since prop 13 passed, that's not enough time for any effect like that to be noticeable (time for kids to graduate from school, time for the system to break down, &tc &tc). (2) Then why is it that indrustrial parks are springing up all over the place (like mushrooms it seems)? (3) We didn't drop to 49th from [impiled 1st] we dropped to 30th from 15th (and there was lots of other funny things going on like 12 states GREATLY increasing their spending). (4) The UC system and the State University system are not funded by property taxes, they're funded by State income tax (from the general fund). -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"