{"id":9505,"date":"2010-03-23T07:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9505"},"modified":"2010-03-23T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:21:00","slug":"without-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9505","title":{"rendered":"Without Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DFL legislator would very much like to give school districts the power to raise taxes<\/a> without voter approval:<\/p>\n

“In any other year, I would be horrified by the idea,” said Rep. Mindy Greiling, DFL-Roseville. “But I will consider this as a short-term solution. Education funding should be from the state. But schools need a lifeline right now.”<\/p>\n

Greiling, who chairs the House K-12 Education Finance Division, introduced a bill last week that would allow school districts to levy up to $200 per pupil from local taxpayers without voter approval.<\/p>\n

The bill is one of three that gives districts more taxing authority. They are scheduled to go in front of Greiling’s committee this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great idea, DFL.\u00a0 People are hurting, unemployment is booming – shake ’em down for more!<\/p>\n

Not every <\/em>DFLer has lost his mind:<\/p>\n

“I’m very hesitant to do that. When property taxes have gone up $3.6 billion since 2003, we don’t need to be raising more property taxes,” said Rep. Paul Marquart, DFL-Dilworth, chairman of the House Property and Local Sales Tax Division.<\/p>\n

About three-quarters of school funding \u2014 close to $7 billion annually \u2014 comes from the state.<\/p>\n

The rest comes from property taxes. School districts across the state levied about $2.3 billion for taxes payable in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That 2.3 billion, by the way, is money that charter schools don’t get; whenever any DFL\/MFT\/MN2020 flaks tell you “charter schools cost more than public schools”, ask ’em why they’re leaving out a quarter of the budget<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At any rate, here’s the DFL’s message to you; “our institutions can’t operate within a budget, like the rest of you have to, so we’re going to take what we need.\u00a0 We’ll let you know when we’ve decided what that is. Buh-bye”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A DFL legislator would very much like to give school districts the power to raise taxes without voter approval: “In any other year, I would be horrified by the idea,” said Rep. Mindy Greiling, DFL-Roseville. “But I will consider this as a short-term solution. Education funding should be from the state. But schools need a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,35,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-education","category-money","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}