Vigo Schools Tax Referendum

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sycamore tuff said:
We need fire departments, schools, sheriff's, etc. I get all that. Taxes are a necessary part of society. Unfortunately the tax collector's have gotten pretty greedy over the years. The question for me is, how much am I willing to go along with the locals shaking me down in order to keep the properties I have worked for and paid for. If we don't pay it they ultimately will take your property away. Without more information I am not willing to help them take my money away.
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taxes arent actually necessary and "we need" really means "I want"
 
sycamore tuff said:
We need fire departments, schools, sheriff's, etc. I get all that. Taxes are a necessary part of society. Unfortunately the tax collector's have gotten pretty greedy over the years. The question for me is, how much am I willing to go along with the locals shaking me down in order to keep the properties I have worked for and paid for. If we don't pay it they ultimately will take your property away. Without more information I am not willing to help them take my money away.
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Taxes are the cost of a civilized society and currently public schools take up far more of the tax dollar than fire and/or police departments. That being said, the tax collector's aren't the greedy ones but the politicians, ultimately the citizenry because every politician makes promises about what they are going to deliver and that all comes with a price tag, chiefly funded via taxes.
 
Of course, what was popularized 95 yrs. ago by SCOTUS' Oliver Wendell Homes has been impacted by the massive U.S. growth of a top-heavy government that see's no end in sight.

Perhaps a better perspective on taxes comes from a nineteenth-century gentleman, who made clear how he thought politicians had a duty to exercise restraint in matters of taxation and spending: All taxation is a loss per se, he said. It is the sacred duty of the government to take only from the people what is necessary to the proper discharge of the public service; and that taxation in any other mode, is simply in one shape or another, legalized robbery. Richard Cartwright, the Canadian Minister of Finance in the Liberal government of the day, said in his 1878 budget speech, "Moderation in government and taxes, as in all areas of life, is a virtue."
 
Any chance they find a bunch of "yes" ballots in a dumpster behind the VCSC headquarters at around 2 in the morning with only that one question answered? All jokes aside, because I don't think we really have that issue too much in Indiana, I am curious to see how the vote turns out tonight. Almost everyone I know is against it, and from what I've seen most of the public seems against it as well.
 

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Sycamorefan96 said:
Any chance they find a bunch of "yes" ballots in a dumpster behind the VCSC headquarters at around 2 in the morning with only that one question answered? All jokes aside, because I don't think we really have that issue too much in Indiana, I am curious to see how the vote turns out tonight. Almost everyone I know is against it, and from what I've seen most of the public seems against it as well.
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It's possible... Terre Haute is still (back) in Indiana's "Bloody Eighth" district - correct?
 
Prediction........the referendum will fall....it will not crack 42%.
The voting lines were extremely long.....a large turnout.
Note: The Bloody Eight" is no longer bloody.........it is dead red, as is most of Indiana (aka Mississippi North).
 
The referendum is about to get shot down big time. Ironically now they're supposedly having problems with voting tabulation.
 
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jben said:
Prediction........the referendum will fall....it will not crack 42%.
The voting lines were extremely long.....a large turnout.
Note: The Bloody Eight" is no longer bloody.........it is dead red, as is most of Indiana (aka Mississippi North).
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Not sure anyone should want Indiana to reflect, mimic Mississippi... or seek the "advice" of a long-dead foreign politician who changed parties... a politician who's family was expelled from the U.S. as they were Loyal to the Crown...
 
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This thread is a massive disappointment.

I went to West Vigo and graduated from there in 2011. I still regularly go back. And those of you who don't think it has issues are utterly clueless. It was built in 1960, about a decade before THN and THS. They just had to shut down the school a few years ago because of a massive mold issue. They have water main breaks all the time. It's not a big school at all but to act like it doesn't have issues after 60+ years of being open is laughable.
 
Then fix the water issue. The mold problem was apparently fixed. Most of the administrators and teachers didn’t even think we needed schools a year ago.
 

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