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The danger of voting YES for the school levy.

A recent posting has hit the nail on the head about the most dangerous unintended consequence if the school levy (Prop 1) passes. It's the fact that the School Board will NEVER try and pass a bond measure again to fund anything the district wants to do or build. They will take advantage of the lower approval threshold of 50% passage to feed their insatiable appetite for spending with asking for levy after levy after levy until you are taxed right out of your house. Why would they ever try to pass a bond measure requiring 60% approval when they can get their fix for new revenues from voters that will continue to approve levys that only require a 50% approval to pass? Voters must look into the future and ask themselves if they want to go down the road of higher property taxes that are caused by the levy process being used to fund capital building projects. The District likes to show that our taxes are lower than some of the counties with Microsoft millionaires living there. They must be in a race to the top for tax rates that this area doesn't have the demographics to support. If they are willing to put this levy on top of the levy and bond you are already paying for, what's to stop them from coming at you again from year to year needing more easy levy approved tax dollars? We must not reward their fiscal irresponsibility in the management of our tax dollars with more tax dollars. We need to say NO and ask they go back to the drawing board and figure out how to solve our local issues without just throwing more money at the problem. Is that to much to ask of such a group of smart people? Why is raising taxes their only solution?

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