Free Covid money is gone, property owner to make up for it? — In Allison Clarkson’s column this week in the Springfield Reporter she talked about the large property tax increase. In essence she said they saw the education costs rising rapidly but did nothing about it for three years because they had “free” Covid money they could use to hide the issue from the public. Now that the “free” money is gone they see the public reaction to the huge tax increase and now they are at least discussing that they will look at the problem.
That’s all well and good but they won’t actually work on the major issues that are driving the education increases such as insurance costs, dealing with the teachers’ unions particularly because they are driving forces in getting them re-elected, and making necessary fundamental changes to the education system itself.
But in fairness to them they have been very busy working on giving themselves a massive raise, passing a bill that will go after oil producers to pay the state for selling us a product that has kept us warm, and passing a carbon tax which will financially harm many families and businesses.
They have priorities but they don’t seem to include representing us. -Keith Stern