If one is ‘required’ one is not ‘donating’
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen:
Thousands of parents could face a choice: volunteer at your child’s school or pay a $100 fine.
A bill introduced in the Ohio legislature would require parents to donate at least 13 hours of time to their school district each year or pay the price. And, if parents failed to pay up, the fine could be deducted from their state income tax refunds.
How many tax dollars go to schools? And it’s never enough. Ever.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Public school financing is a disaster everywhere and getting worse fast. I’ve always thought the general public (usually the property owners) ought to be cut loose and user fees charged to the folks who are actually, like…using the system.
Public education isn’t free. The folks who use it ought to pay for it. Right now they have scammed us into EVERYONE paying like mad for it, and the folks who use it THINK it’s free. Let em pay. It will invest the parents and students to demand more of the system.
This Ohio Idea is dumb…but it’s not as dumb as what we are doing now.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:22 am
This law, if passed, will not stand up to judicial scrutiny. Something about involuntary servitude, I think, or perhaps just a violation of how taxes are supposed to work. That, or the tar and feathers.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Might this qualify as a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment and, as such, be unconstitutional?
June 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I’m a small “l” libertarian, but even I think that the world is probably better off if I pay for your damn kid’s education, at least until I can talk the rest of you breeders into not having kids until you can actually pay for them yourselves.
While this is a tax, at least the tax in on the patents, and not everyone.
the word of the day is Corvée
June 24th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Not to hijack, but careful what you say about our government schools. As of Friday when HR6304 passed using your first amendment right could have serious repercussions:
http://www.blogdigger.com/search.jsp?q=hr+6304
Persons Exercising 1st Amendment Rights “May be Considered” Agents of a Foreign Power.
What a smart, intelligent piece of legislation. Here is a link to our wonderful leaders that chose to vote “yea” for an unnecessary measure to abolish the 4th. Look out, they are coming for the 2nd!
http://stevehouse.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/20/1595496-how-did-your-rep-vote-roll-call-vote-on-hr-6304-aka-teleco-immunity-cave-in-bill
Bow to the masters serfs….
June 24th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
We got rid of that one 3 years ago.