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

[J Ford]

As a Family Feud contestant would put it "Good Answer!"



>From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at adelphia.net>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Answer to Question #8 (was Ten Simple Questions on 
>theBond)
>Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:27:10 -0700
>
>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
>
>
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