Editor:
Do the following to properly maintain schools and emergency services:
• Abolish all property taxes. Use the state sales tax to fund schools. Replace other state taxes with a single tax, reducing the price of everything for everybody, including schools, teachers and government.
• Pennsylvania has 67 counties and 500 school districts. Make each county one school district, eliminating the cost of 433 offices, superintendents, and staffs.
• Sell 433 school district office buildings, putting the money received into the treasuries of county/school districts where located. Provide equal state funding for only students who are citizens or legal immigrants.
• Abolish the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, saving for schools the billions annually spent before collecting one cent from liquor sales. Privatizing state stores by selling them and their trucks and warehouses, and putting the sales money into the treasury, would transfer the entire cost of liquor sales to private owners who would pay taxes.
• Make each county one police jurisdiction. This will provide better protection countywide without involving state police.
• Put one-third of every casino wager into the casinos’ state sales tax account to fund schools and emergency services.
• Run the school year from Aug. 1 until June 30. Students have more to learn. Year-round teaching would make teachers’ and other government employees’ new pay raises less disliked.
Ronald Shultz
Kenhorst
Source: Berkshire mont
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