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In article <1ebmclINNcef@skat.usc.edu> walker@skat.usc.edu (Michael D Walker) writes:
>In article <5649@bacon.IMSI.COM> jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>>This is news to me.  Prop 13 showed clearly that California taxpayers
>>would rather have lower property taxes than good schools.
>
>No.  They realized their money was being wasted on school bureaucrats,
>poor teachers, kids with bad parents, or to subsidize the rich with
>the UC system.

Oh, I get it.  So, to improve the situation, they cut down the funding to
improve the schools!  Makes sense to me...

Bullshit - they did nothing of sort.  Californians are like Pavlov's dogs or
rats running around in an electrified maze.  They let themselves get conditioned
to believe that if you vote for things like proposition 13, you get more money!
Simple as that...nothing more to it.  Everyone has more money and it must come
from nowhere.  After all, we can't *see* what taxes do, so they must be wasted
by a bunch of incompetant idiots we can't see and never met.

>Thowing money at it hasn't worked.  What I'm hearing is that CA is
>spending more on schools now then in the past, but the standards keep
>dropping.

I know - lots of people have heard that and like to remember it.  It makes nice
dogma when you're voting yourself less taxes.  Minor things like proof of that
concept (like, some DOCUMENTATION, buster) and a *real* solution to the
problem, are of course left to someone else who has more time than you do.  In
the absense of such a person, just cutting taxes must be the answer.

Fred