Comparative Law & Vourchers

[Jim Maule]

richard duncan <rduncan at UNLINFO.UNL.EDU> writes

> As more and more families opt out of public education, a tipping point
> will be reached in which there will no longer be political support for
> significant expenditures for educational programs that benefit
> children selectively. Even here in the utopian state of Nebraska, tax
> lids on property taxes and a general resistance to income and sales
> tax increases are putting the pinch on public schools.

Rick, don't let your legislators confab with those here in
Pennsylvania. They'd learn 1,000,000 ways to raise revenue and taxes.
Don't like property taxes and income taxes and sales taxes? How about
occupation taxes? And occupational taxes? (which are different from
occupation taxes!) And business privilege taxes applied to a
single family rental property as well as to businesses. Then pay for
your mercantile license fee which entitles you to pay a mercantile
license tax AND a gross receipts tax. There's more. But I can't let
too many secrets out.....  Gotta watch those tax folks. :-)

Seriously, you're right. Most of the public revenue pressure comes
from needs to fund Taj Ma, uh, public school building projects (in
contrast to curriculum and "soft" expenses).

Jim Maule
Professor of Law
Villanova University School of Law
Villanova, PA 19085
maule at law.vill.edu
http://www.cilp.org/~maule
(610) 519 - 7135