Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Austin School Tax Increase

I was reading the editorial about Austin school district tax increase: Voters should approve pay raises for teachers by the EDITORIAL BOARD. When I was reading this editorial it was a little confusing and is a catch 22. I agree that voters should approve pay raises for teacher and other full time staff. When voters vote “yes” on this it will raise property tax in Travis County so teachers and staff will get a raise, the school district will get a better percentage out of the tax to pay for these raises. So let say the teachers and staff live in Travis County ( which almost all of them do) they have to pay the higher tax , when they do they are paying for their raises , because the money that they are paying on higher taxes is going to the district, in which is giving them the raises. So it a catch 22 for the teachers and staff in the district to pay these taxes, they would be paying for their own raises, it goes in circles they more money they get in raises they have to pay higher taxes. I am all for giving raises to teachers and other staff, they are teaching these children, these children our country future. When it comes to raises Travis County should have to come up with maybe a better way of does this without it play a catch 22 for these teachers.

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