[Vision2020] Answer to Question #8 (was Ten Simple Questions on the Bond)

[Saundra Lund]

Donovan Arnold asked:
"8)	Why does the school only outlay costs to taxpayers living in a home
with 
$100,000-200,000 in value with a 50% tax exemption? Why not break down the 
costs for an apartment dweller? Or a renter of a home? The majority of 
people having to pay housing are not in homes worth $100,000-$150,000. Tax 
increases affect the poor more then they affect the middle class with 50% 
tax exemptions and the wealthy."

The answer to this question (like most of the others) is very simple and
logical.  In fact, for anyone who has actually *worked* helping the
economically disadvantaged with housing, and likely to many others making a
genuine effort to understand rather than stereotype, the answer to Donovan's
question is crystal clear:  the cost to renters CANNOT be broken down
because of the variables.

Simply put, whether passage of the levy will cost *any* individual renter
*any* money depends on the individual property owner, *not* on anything the
district can do or know.


HTH,
Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
Edmund Burke