<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>If it is in fact true that the Moscow School District is illegally collecting funding from the people in Moscow, I hope indeed that Dr. Weitz is successful in his lawsuit. All tax increases should be legal, otherwise it would be called stealing. I hope even our most
liberal proponents for education are not in favor of stealing.</div></blockquote><div><br>The paternalistic theory that Weitz is basing his lawsuit on is that, somehow, people's behavior today is driven entirely by the wording of a ballot measure fifteen years ago, and not the debate surrounding the funding of the schools today. This seems a rather thin basis to sue to reverse the will of the people of Moscow.
<br><br>Just to clarify, Donovan: are you making the wildly hyperbolic argument that a dispute over the wording of a ballot question is tantamount to "stealing"? And are you arguing for the (widely discredited) theory of "taxpayer's standing"?
<br><br>-- ACS<br></div><br></div><br>