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You didn't ask a question, you threw out a bunch of assumptions, most of which were so far off base that I need a stronger word than "wrong". You're still doin

• anamax 17y ago
  > If you had, you wouldn't be talking about how the tax base took a "hit". You claimed that you didn't have enough money to pay teachers. There are three ways to get into that situation. (1) The amount of money that you're paying teachers (as a whole) has gone up. (2) You have less money than you had last year. (1) is dumb unless you have more money coming in, which leaves (2). Should I have assumed dumb? > Did you read my earlier comments about how the property tax is assessed and collected? Yes, I did. The total amount of property tax collected can go down if the total assessed value of property goes down. Of course, not all of that property tax revenue goes for teacher salaries, so it's possible for the teacher salary budget to go down when the property tax revenues don't change. Anad that gets us back to priorities. When total tax revenues go down (or new spending comes in that exceeds new revenues), govts make two lists - things that they threaten to cut and things that they don't threaten to cut. The composition of those two lists tells you want they think is valuable. If your "teacher salary budget" got cut, it's because something else didn't get cut. Why do I keep saying that? Because property tax revenues pay for more than just teacher salaries.