I voted to have my taxes go up to pay for a new elementary school. They replaced a flat occupation tax with an increase in the income tax which would be about an extra $400 a year for me. But it’ll come right out of my paycheck instead of being a separate bill I have to remember to pay.
Of course, all the idiots who live near me will probably vote against it and we won’t get the school because “TAX BAD.”
Remember that one time when the state of Kansas enacted huge tax cuts that produced no meaningful economic growth and nearly bankrupted the state?
Six years later, even the GOP realized they had fucked up and the legislature rolled back most of the prior cuts. And yet there are still lots of people who are too stupid to understand that investments in public infrastructure and public welfare pay off way more than any tax cuts.
Stupidity, or wilful ignorance based on an ideology which they prefer to reality?
Some people just hate the idea of their money supporting people who have less than them, because they are right wing. And the definition of right wing is “Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable…” They, quite honestly, want the outgroups to live in filth. And they would trade some of their own potential prosperity for that.
Humans, as a whole, will knowingly trade a future world for their children for the convenience of driving down the road, after all.
My city has a referendum to replace the middle school and add a wing to the elementary school. Oh and add fire suppression systems to both of them since they are so old they don’t have them.
It’ll cost me $700/year for like 25 years.
I’m voting yes. Let’s invest in our schools and education system. Let’s understand how incredibly useful the power of local taxes are.
And then be mad when the town dies because everyone leaves and no one new moves in. #1 thing on our list when looking where to move? School quality…well that and lack of Dollar Generals
I didn’t realize how prevalent Dollar generals were until I took a road trip through West Virginia. It’s like the only successful franchise in that entire state.
I don’t even have children and always vote for the school taxes. Only an idiot would shoot themselves in the foot by neglecting the people who will care for them in their end days.
Yeah, I really don’t get it. People always say “children are the future”, so why the fuck don’t we act like it? Get them kids some nice ass schools, some nice ass books, and some nice ass teachers with top-tier salaries. I will probably never have kids, but I still want the next generations to be better than skibidi fucking rizz.
I voted to have my taxes go up to pay for a new elementary school. They replaced a flat occupation tax with an increase in the income tax which would be about an extra $400 a year for me. But it’ll come right out of my paycheck instead of being a separate bill I have to remember to pay.
Of course, all the idiots who live near me will probably vote against it and we won’t get the school because “TAX BAD.”
Remember that one time when the state of Kansas enacted huge tax cuts that produced no meaningful economic growth and nearly bankrupted the state?
Six years later, even the GOP realized they had fucked up and the legislature rolled back most of the prior cuts. And yet there are still lots of people who are too stupid to understand that investments in public infrastructure and public welfare pay off way more than any tax cuts.
Stupidity, or wilful ignorance based on an ideology which they prefer to reality?
Some people just hate the idea of their money supporting people who have less than them, because they are right wing. And the definition of right wing is “Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable…” They, quite honestly, want the outgroups to live in filth. And they would trade some of their own potential prosperity for that.
Humans, as a whole, will knowingly trade a future world for their children for the convenience of driving down the road, after all.
My city has a referendum to replace the middle school and add a wing to the elementary school. Oh and add fire suppression systems to both of them since they are so old they don’t have them.
It’ll cost me $700/year for like 25 years.
I’m voting yes. Let’s invest in our schools and education system. Let’s understand how incredibly useful the power of local taxes are.
And then be mad when the town dies because everyone leaves and no one new moves in. #1 thing on our list when looking where to move? School quality…well that and lack of Dollar Generals
I didn’t realize how prevalent Dollar generals were until I took a road trip through West Virginia. It’s like the only successful franchise in that entire state.
I don’t even have children and always vote for the school taxes. Only an idiot would shoot themselves in the foot by neglecting the people who will care for them in their end days.
Yeah, I really don’t get it. People always say “children are the future”, so why the fuck don’t we act like it? Get them kids some nice ass schools, some nice ass books, and some nice ass teachers with top-tier salaries. I will probably never have kids, but I still want the next generations to be better than skibidi fucking rizz.