And just when you got over the shock of your property tax bill
The state Democrats and Governor Gregoire are doing it to us again.
They passed a bill that will allow the Renton School District to increase our property taxes once again through levies.
There’s also a dirty little secret that the Renton School District does not want you to know. What is it? We’ll let the cat out of the bag in a future post. Stay tuned.
Many people that vote for these levies may not realize that it directly affects their rent. Just because you live in an apartment or rental home, the property taxes for that building will go up. You may not see the increase until your lease is up, but you will feel the impact.
Maybe the Renton School District should figure it out that building new schools does not always improve test scores.
The Renton School District needs to get a backbone and start disciplining kids that act up in class. They should ban cell phones from being used during class and be thankful to the parents of private and home school kids that are paying for education TWICE! Once through their property taxes and again through their tuition and school supplies they must purchase. They are literally giving the Renton School District thousands of dollars per month for services they don’t use.
Renton used to have good schools. Many families in the late 60’s and early 70’s moved here to get away from the Seattle school district. A trend that continues today. Just look at the enrollment numbers for the Seattle School district.
Back in 80’s the Renton School District even closed some neighborhood schools due to declining enrollment.
They have now replaced just about every elementary school in the City of Renton but yet the test scores don’t seem to show any improvement. Where’s the problem?
The problem is we have a group of people running the City of Renton and the Renton School District that don’t care about the people, they only care about their power.
Remember this when the next election rolls around. Do your homework. Be certain you understand where your elected officials stand on issues important to you and don’t simply vote for them because “things seem to be going okay”.
- Look at your property taxes. They’ve gone up. Have you services improved that much?
- Look at your sales tax. It’s gone up. Do you get more out of the City of Renton with each tax increase?
- Look at your income tax. Oh wait, we’re not all paying that yet…but we will.
- Look at your cell phone tax. It’s gone up. Does you cell phone work better?
- Look atyour utility tax. It’s gone up. And don’t forget there are additional taxes buried in there you don’t even see. Now we collect garbage every other week but yet we pay more.
Bottom line is the City of Renton, the Renton School District, King County and the State of Washington need to figure it out that businesses are leaving and will continue to until we get control of the spending in this state. That means jobs go away and the people start to follow.
They can’t keep sucking the taxpayers dry. Eventually enough people will wake up and realize they are being shammed.
Off our soap box. Here’s the story that put us over the edge.
Legislature OKs schools raise more through levies
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - State lawmakers passed a bundle of major education reforms Thursday, including a plan that should help the state compete for the Obama administration’s $4.35 billion Race to the Top program.
The education bills were the last major measures approved by the Democrat-led House and Senate on the final day of the 60-day regular session. They will be returning Monday for a special session to finish work on the state budget, but lawmakers were trumpeted the education agenda as a significant step forward.
Read the rest of the story at KOMONews.com.
