[Vision2020] Future of MSD according to Pope Doug Wilson

[J Ford]

This from "I'm Douglas Wilson! I don't need to show my ID" and "I'm The Pope 
of Christ Church", who apparently knows more about UI's future as well as 
the MSD's future, than the people actually actively involved in the running 
of those two entities (anyone else hear about the "serious decline" of the 
UI?")

A Local Deal
Topic: Moscow Diversity Cleansing

The Moscow School Board voted yesterday to hold an election in March to 
increase their supplemental levy by $1.97 million. Now there are a number of 
questions that normally swirl around levy issues. (Is the money used wisely? 
Why is MSD more expensive than other districts? Voters who pursue other 
education options being less inclined to support it, and so on.)

But in this case, and in this election, I think all these standard issues 
are really beside the point. The real point in this election is one of 
simple affordability. The major industry in town (the University of Idaho) 
is in serious decline. Our Moscow civic leadership has been busy chasing new 
prospective businesses out of town. Within the next year, a good portion of 
the tax base is going to move just across the state line, and the businesses 
in the new mall there will no doubt set up some blinking lights to summon 
Moscow shoppers over. Ross Perot's famous phrase about the giant sucking 
sound comes to mind.

Another illustration that comes to mind is the one about champagne tastes 
and a beer budget. And you can't chase all the champagne vendors out of 
town, and then complain about the beer. As a simple matter of economics, tax 
support for the MSD requires a thriving tax base. When you cut the latter, 
you cut the former. Some might want to complain, if this levy goes down, 
that it was the nefarious work of home schoolers, Christian conservatives, 
or what not. But this one appears to me to have been done already, without 
any opponents of "government schools" lifting a finger.

No, this was done by the liberals running the Moscow show. You can't take a 
chain saw to the orchard, and wonder resentfully the following autumn about 
the apple shortage.

Posted by Douglas Wilson - 12/20/2006 5:46:41 PM | Link to this post |



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