Education Funding Reform – Tax Swap HB750
The yearly effort by Illinois Legislators to raise your taxes under the guise of Education Reform has returned. this time it is under a new name SB2288. You can read the full bill and see its co-sponsors at the General Assembly website. The Senate Education Committee votes tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon on this money grab. Please contact members of the committee and tell them to vote NO! Tell them to start holding the public school bureaucracy accountable for the billions of dollars we already spend on education in the state.
If you want to stop the continual money grab by legislators, county, township and school boards, then visit the Illinois Citizen Coalition and see how voting YES on a Constitution Convention this November can change this.
Extremewisdom.com has an alternative education funding plan that fully funds education, but results in a tax cut. View a short video presentation and read the Executive Summary.
For background information on HB750 now SB2288 review the following articles:
- Teachers To Springfield Part Duex
- School Funding: Where the Candidates Stand
- Study Showing More Faults with HB750
- HB 750 Not Dead Yet
- Tax Increase Cost an Average of 20%
- HB 750/SB 1484 Flyer
- HB 750 Analysis Roundup
- More HB750 Analysis
- HB 750 – Massive State Tax Increase
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Mike Harmon
[...] site admin wrote an interesting post today on Education Funding Reform – Tax Swap HB750Here’s a quick excerptThe yearly effort by Illinois Legislators to raise your taxes under the guise of Education Reform has returned. this time it is under a new name SB2288. You can read the full bill and see its co-sponsors at the General Assembly website. … [...]
How do you propose that schools raise money if not through taxes? Are you proposing an alternative method of funding?
My idea of funding is to fund each and every child equally. Reallistically there is no way education will be funded in the near future without taxes. My argument is that tax money is being wasted because the education bureaucracy is unaccountable and has become self serfing and bloated. If you look at the cost of private schools and charter schools, it is readily apparent that the costs of education can be accomplished cheaper than the public school system does now. By empowering parents with the ability to choose their childrens schools, you force the public schools to innovate and provide a good education for the lease amount of money possible. If not, they lose children and thus money. I am more inclined to support the Extreme Wisdom plan I mentioned in the post. It changes the funding whild giveing the great majority of people a tax cut. If there is a better plan out there, I’d love to see it and would be open to it. I am not supporting an increase in taxes though just to give bureaucrats more money to waste.