[Vision2020] anti-levy DN letter

[keely emerinemix]

Writer T. Allegi, in his letter to the editor today, asks that voters vote "no" on the upcoming levy, because he believes that using property tax money to fund "non-property-related" services is the wrong way to fund schools.  He defines "property-related" services as, for example, police and fire protection.There may someday be in the State of Idaho many or different mechanisms for funding public education -- but there is currently a system under which property taxes pay the lion's share of the load.  That's what we've got, and to "send a message" by voting "no" on the levy because of non-support for property-tax funding for public education is pointless.  The failure of this levy would be terrible for MSD.  The message might be a good one, but a "no" vote against the levy is the wrong way to express it.keely
        
            
        
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