Funding Public Education:

You don't want to miss this one. For years, people have objected to funding schools with property tax. This method of funding public education might have been a good idea in a pre World War II era, but everybody knows that the method serves only local and state politicians. The local politicians use property taxes as the base of their power, state politicians use it as a means of avoiding raising taxes state-wide.

In Arizona, the rich people's berg of Troon, who live in million dollar homes, recently created a school district of their own in order to avoid paying property taxes.

It seems their children attend school in a nearby school district, which was about to levy property taxes on the citizens of Troon. So the high minded citizens of Troon got together and formed their own school district, Christopher Verde School District. Don't be misled. They have no intention of building any schools. They just want the right to levy their own school taxes, which they intend to be a big fat ZERO, while continuing to send their kids to the other school district.

Sound like the time is right to change the funding of public education to state run? No real, substantial improvement in education will occur in this country until voters finally wise up.

You can read about Troon in today's New York Times.