[The Horrible Esthete]

Oh my God! What kind of monster attempts to educate children?

Typical response. Exactly what I would expect. Even though I explained the REAL problem I have with that....you just ignore it completely and come back with a canned tagline without thinking at all.

When and where did I say that I don't want to educate our children...or refuse to pay my share for it?

Right - NOWHERE.

My complaint, Tim, is not about the concept funding education with my tax dollars. My complaint is that it makes ZERO sense to REWARD horrible waste and mismanagement of public funds by blindly throwing MORE tax dollars at the district which sqandered the ample funds we give them in the first place.

How did you miss that??

We have a civic duty to educate our children. We must all pay our share. And I do. I own a humble 1,100 square foot home, and pay $1,200 to the school system every year.

But CPS has WASTED that, and now, instead of reforming its practices, instead of allowing the public to review of their books, instead of making cuts and streamlining the budget, they just come ask me to pay $1,475 a year instead of $1,200.

And apparently, a majority of of the voting public is too blind to see how insanely stupid that is. The problem is not that they don't get enough tax dollars from district property owners to stay afloat. The problem is that they're mismanaging the money they do get.

When is it ever anything but a DUMB IDEA to try to rectify the problems caused by fiscal irresponsibility by THROWING MORE MONEY at it?