Colorado tax increase

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"After two years of meetings, countless hours of stakeholder discussions, painstaking creation of a bill and then an arduous slog through the legislative process, the overhauled Public School Finance Act now heads into the home stretch — a sprint toward the November ballot."...........

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We will look closely at this mess............recall recently the radicals were defeated in the CO Supreme Court as they attempted to redistribute property tax collections for local schools to "poorer areas"....To examine the precise grab take this as an example......Park County which is a frugal County and well managed IMHO would have some of the citizens tax $$$$ (yes indeed property TAXES) COLLECTED AND SENT OUT OF THE AREA TO A SLOPPY , BLOATED "POOR" DISTRICT AS A WAY TO REDISTRIBUTE OUR HARD PAID TAXES TO THE UNDERBELLY.......YES INDEED THIS IS EXACTLY what the radicals were up to. LZ was really disappointed probably.

This is a reality in some states......CO was not the first to approach this taking from the productive......others live with it.....it is the law in many Socialist USA States......mostly back East. We dodged a bullet.......just barely. Liberty requires ALL of us to question everything the elected pols approach......viligence is the price for liberty.

Reading the article it looks like they haven't decided which taxes to increase. Right now they are mainly looking at increasing the state income tax or sales tax. I thought property taxes were the main taxes for education, but that might be based on a previous state I lived in.

Oh great...another tax increase the schools to save the schools. Someone needs to take control of the out of control spending in the schools before giving them a bigger well to dip into. Every teacher gets a free IPAD but we are broke? HUH?

Really? The state supplies everyt teacher with a free iPad? I wasn't aware of that.

THE real travesty is that 50% + of teachers.....teach fluf........fire them as a start and refocus on 3-Rs.....

deltamrey wrote: THE real travesty is that 50% + of teachers.....teach fluf........fire them as a start and refocus on 3-Rs.....

The 3-Rs would be?

chickaree wrote: Really? The state supplies everyt teacher with a free iPad? I wasn't aware of that.

I don't know about the state, but they sure did locally while they were cutting budgets for necessary things like transportation.

We need a fundamental shift in our thinking about "public education" here in this State of ours. We need to recognize that the purpose of taxes we have agreed to levy on ourselves is to provide an education to the children who reside in the State. We do not have to have "public schools" to achieve this goal, we can provide this important and necessary service, education of the children, in a variety of ways.

The goal should be to provide the best education at the least cost, not a minimal education for whatever it costs. Tuition for K-8 at a Catholic school runs about $4k a year on average, tuition at Regis-Jesuit is roughly $13K for one year. Add up the cost for 12 years of education and it comes out to an average of $7K a year for the 12 years, roughly what the State contribution is per student for K-12 education each year (which doesn't take into account the county contribution). In Jefferson County, the per pupil spending was $11,800 per student in 2011/2012.

We can, and should, provide a better education and lower the cost of that education by refusing to continue to follow the current "public education" paradigm which has proven itself incapable of providing the best outcome for either the students or the taxpayers. We can do more for less and it is an obligation of those elected to represent us in our State government to stop pandering to the special interest groups who profit from the current paradigm and implement a new one which benefits both the students and the taxpayers. The time for vouchers has arrived. It is time to take control of the money away from the public bureaucracies and place it instead into the hands of the people themselves, the parents who have children who need a quality education. They will do a much better job of spending the public money gathered for the education of their children than any elected official ever could.