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  • 01-01-2001 12:00 AM

    2007 House Bill 5269 (Give low taxable value school districts debt millage subsidy )

    Introduced in the House on September 27, 2007

    Click here to view bill details.
  • 10-03-2007 10:36 PM In reply to

    Michigan = Lake Woebegon

    We've all moved to Lake Woebegon, where everyone is above average! Every school district will now levy above average debt, or average debt, but no one will be below average! I didn't realize that Comrade Young was a graduate of the Detroit schools. No wonder their math scores are so bad! Not only is the math bad, but this penalizes schools that have passed bond issues to build new schools! Now, we'll not only pay for our own schools, we'll pay higher taxes to the state to build schools for other districts. No reason to move out of Detroit to put your kids in better schools. You can just stay in Detroit and have the rest of the state build new schools for you. Oh, well. He's keeping up the family tradition -- steal from outstate to support Detroit.
  • 10-03-2007 11:40 PM In reply to

    Anonymous

    We are the only state that I know of that has "Schools of Choice". Before any district gets subsidized as a state mandate, they should get their fiscal house in order. By that I mean Detroit gives far more perks to board emembers and Superintendents than any other district I know of and does not have the test scores to merit the bonus. This is ridiculous legislation.
  • 10-04-2007 7:38 AM In reply to

    Enough Already

    I'm tired of paying to subsidize Detroit! If you don't like the fact that your neighborhood is a run-down cesspool thereby generating low property taxes, then work to improve your neighborhood. Why should those people who have worked hard to be able to live in more upscale areas be penalized to support those who don't?
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