Thursday, December 30, 2010

Will we support cutting taxes?

How to cut taxes?  Well first, someone has to make the hard choices.  At home, we cancel cable, eat out less if at all, get a second job.  But when elected leaders start to make these hard choices, all we seem to hear are complaints and not solutions. 

For example, when discussing classroom sizes, it was published:

"There is no doubt the 22-pupil limit is costly because every time a class in the five affected grade levels hits 23 or more students, a new class must be created with an additional teacher and classroom."

One superintendent from the Houston area said "..each new class costs his district $100,000 to $150,000."

This is cr&p.   Portable buildings run about $50 per square foot.  And it’s a one-time cost that will last 25-50 years.  So by my math….

$30,000 for building, plus $200/month for utilities plus $40,000 for new teacher (plus $10,000 in benefits) equals $82,400 for the first year and $52,400 every year thereafter.

Let’s offer solutions and not roadblocks.

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