Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Makes a Guy Want to Spit


Public schools are corrupt and scuzzy places. Not surprisingly then, they are manipulative scoundrels when it comes to election day. What was the only thing on the ballot in South St. Paul today? Property tax levy for the school district. It is conveniently placed in the off year so as to take advantage of lower voter turnout. Highly committed retards turn out and jack everybody's taxes up.

Now, strictly speaking, that's fair. After all, as a citizen you've got the responsibility to go out and vote every time if you want to be heard. But it's still galling that the insatiable maw that is public school, not satisfied with wasting oodles of dollars every year, manipulates the system to get even more. It makes me feel dirty that these institutions even exist.

7 comments:

  1. I feel the same way. Don't forget each and every time they put a referendum vote on the ballot, it costs us a minimum of $10,000.

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  2. Waseca referendum; DOWN IN FLAMES!!!!

    (with no organized opposition)

    Life is good, at least when I get to pay my property taxes.

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  3. Unfortunately, Anoka-Hennepin's referendum past by essentially a 3 to 2 margin.

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  4. No levies by us. But we're happy because we shot down the local machine in New Brighton.

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  5. I want to move to Waseca. Anoka-Hennepin sent out a mailer with smiling schoolkids and the obvious sentiment, "Dont you WANT us to have all we need?" Next time, I want to circulate my own version where you peel off the photo of the kids to see union goons and activists hiding behind them.

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  6. My employer has jobs for $9/hour.....which goes surprisingly far here. You can get a very small house for $50k, sometimes less.

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  7. A few years ago some voter activists got a funky law passed that requires at least 50% turnout or ... no new tax measure can pass even if the majority of people who actually *do* vote pass it. It's been something of a problem (we don't turn out 50% all that often), but it has forced the issues onto the regular election times. Even then almost nothing passes.

    Myself, I prefer them on the off season. It spreads out the "be an informed voter" pain instead of stacking everything up for a novel-length voters pamphlet.

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