School Boards Want To Protect Their Pick-Pocketing Rights

Governor Rendell is trying to give homeowners much needed property tax relief under the Act 72 law. The law would allow school districts to receive a portion of gambling tax revenue from the slots. However, all but five of the state’s school boards have yet to accept the offer.
Why would the school boards turn down this offer from the governor? Because, like all government assistance, it comes with some strings attached. If the school district accepts the financial aid from Act 72, they must agree to voter approval for future tax increases above the inflation index. Obviously, by most districts reticence to accept the offer, we can see that they don’t want to have those limitations imposed on them. I mean, it’s downright un-American to allow the very people who foot the bill to have any say in how much or in what way their tax dollars are spent.
While you and I have to scrape and scrounge to get by as gas prices and cable bills and phone bills go up. While we have to tighten our belts and sometimes go without. Maybe cancel a vacation or hold off on buying that stereo system we’ve been wanting. While we make sacrifices, government bureaucrats just raise taxes or fees. They never have to sacrifice. They don’t even know the meaning of the word.
So here is a chance for a little tax relief and your school board doesn’t want to accept it because they don’t want to have their hands tied incase they decide they need to bilk you out of more of your hard earned money later down the road.
I have an idea, why don’t the lawmakers all take a 10% pay cut across the board and give that money back to the taxpayers they’ve stolen it from. That’s about as likely to happen as the gas prices going back down to under a $1.00 a gallon. The hardworking American citizen is not guaranteed to get a pay raise every year, hell they aren’t even guaranteed to have a job. But rest assured that the politicians will always be well taken care of. They don’t ship their jobs to Mexico, although we can dream.
You may think by what I’ve written that I am against any form of taxation. Actually, no I’m not. I just happen to believe that in this country we are trying to live by two mutually exclusive economic systems. Socialism and Capitalism. We want free enterprise and a competitive market place, but the government stifles it with high taxation and burdensome fees and regulations.
The government needs to choose. Either they let us keep most of our money so we can pay our bills and have a chance to save and invest. Or they can take most of our earnings and give us housing, medical care and food.
As it currently stands, we all have the burden of high taxation, but only a few get the benefits back. Most of us fall through the cracks when it comes to government aid. But very few get by without the local, state and federal government picking our pockets.
So what the government has succeeded in doing is alienating most of it’s citizens and engendered in us a feeling of scepticism and resentment.
So folks, if your not in one of the five school districts that has voted to accept the assistance from Act 72, you may want to let your school board know that you have to sacrifice every day to get by, and maybe they should do the same. Not by short selling your children’s education, but maybe by teachers taking a pay cut or giving up some benefits if they feel they need more money for the schools. Hey, the average American taxpayer has to do that every day.