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16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - TSC announces staff cuts · 0 replies · +1 points

Mitch is trying to drive people to the private schools. Mitch doesn't support public education. Contact your representatives, Senator Alting and Rep Truitt. Tell them the cuts are unacceptable. If our schools decline, so will our property values.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - Staff cuts possible at... · 0 replies · +1 points

Mitch doesn't want the taint of raising taxes on his higher political ambitions. Mitch would fire the last teacher before he raised taxes. A surtax on high incomes would make these cuts unnecessary. Instead they are going to cap property taxes which mostly benefits landlords and rich people with McMansions. This will make the problem worse. By the time they are through, people will be abandoning our formerly great public schools and shelling out for private schools. Most people pay more in tuition for a private high school than tuition at Purdue.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - Indiana House approves... · 0 replies · +1 points

If there is not enough revenue to fund fire, insurance rates will go up and property values will go down. California has been shackled with property tax cuts and they are a complete basket case. By the time the fallout from this fiasco hits the fan, Mitch will be long gone.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - Representative Randy T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Mr Truitt had the audacity to send the question, "Should Purdue tuition be capped?" in his campaign literature disguised as a survey. That would be great if the state would pick up more of Purdue funding. Then tuition could be reduced. Instead the state has cut Purdue funding and Mr Truitt was nowhere to be heard. Why wasn't Mr Truitt pounding on My Man MItch's door to protect the Purdue budget? Where was Mr Truitt when Purdue was being unfairly attacked by the grandstanding Senator Kenley?

Where are the questions on Mr Truitt's survey about the lack of pay raises for Purdue employees? Where are the questions about cutting Purdue funding? Where are the questions about cutting funding for our public schools? These are all concerns of the local constituents that the Party Bosses want to avoid.

Joe Micon went out of his way to support Purdue. Unfortunately, the funding for Mr Truitt's campaign will come from the state so he has to bow to the will of MyManMitch and the State Republican Party bosses. We have another tool for the wealthy Republican elites who is not willing to fight for his local constituents.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - School districts could... · 0 replies · +1 points

Send the kids to school in an unheated barn in a corn field? Property values depend on school quality. We may lose more in home equity than we would pay in taxes to maintain quality schools. Mitch wants to privatize everything including our schools. It will keep your taxes low, but no one will want to buy your house and no business wants to move to someplace that has bad schools.

Our public schools are a bargain. People in big cities with bad schools spend more money to send their kids to private high school than we pay for Purdue tuition.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - School districts could... · 2 replies · +1 points

Over the past 30 years, state government has done nothing but cut taxes for the wealthy and transferring them onto the poor and middle class. Now that unemployment is high the state is no longer collecting enough revenue. They most recently gave a huge tax break to millionaire landlords with the property tax cuts.

The state needs to raise more revenue. They should pass a 1 or 2% surtax on incomes of people making over $200K per year. Those are the people that get the most benefit from state service and they could afford it. It is time to ask them to pony up their fair share of the tax revenue.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - Democrats see GOP hypo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Much of the deficit is caused by a drop in revenue because unemployment is too high. Under Clinton, the budget came into balance when unemployment was only 4%. They will never balance the budget with 10% unemployment. They need to put people back to work. We need a JOBS bill.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - Schools asked to cut 3... · 1 reply · +1 points

Will someone please stand up to Mitch Daniels. What are our state representatives saying? Does Rep Truitt support Mitch or does he support our schools? Purdue is in Truitt's district and he has been very quiet. Rep Micon would not have ducked this issue. The reporters need to get our politicians on record. Where was Ron Alting when his fellow Senator Kenley was bashing Purdue? If our representatives won't stand up for our schools what good are they?

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - Senate Committee Appro... · 0 replies · +1 points

Correct. It is a windfall for big landlords. They will pocket their tax cut. It won't go to the tenants who will pay higher sales taxes and fees because of it.

16 years ago @ WLFI.com | Lafayette, ... - Permanent property tax... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is insane. The state is NOT collecting enough sales tax revenue now to fund its programs. Capping property taxes would mean that the state needs a much much larger rainy day fund.

The other option is gutting public education and largely privatizing it. Mitch Daniels went to elite private schools for little rich boys his whole life. He went to private universities. Mitch is no friend of public education. When Mitch gets through, our public schools will be in shambles. In places with bad public schools, private school tuition is higher than tuition at Purdue, over ten thousand per year. Private college tuition is upward of $30,000 compared to the Purdue bargain of well under $10,000. Cuts in state funding to Purdue (It has been decreasing proportionately for decades) will force higher tuition.

The final result will be to create a dual education system. A private system to serve the children of the wealthy elites and a public system that barely functions for those that cannot afford it or refuse to sacrifice. We are going from a meritocracy to a plutocracy. It will no longer matter how capable you could be. It will matter much more how much money Daddy makes.

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