Residents do not have money to give district

Money. Money, give money…

Everyone wants it. This time it is the school levies.

We just got hit by a district levy last year for buildings, buses, etc. When I got the tax bill, I had to sit down. It was $117 raise just for the school alone.

What gets me is the district is listed three times —  one for running it, one for the buildings, and then the real gut-catcher … school other. What the Hades is that? What is that used for? Why is it called other? Don’t they know where it is going? Why is it separate?

Now we are up for another levy. This one for running the schools. And we have already gotten the guilt-trip letters about how those who are saying no should be ashamed of ourselves.

Too me it is about the numbers. This is to replace a levy that is running out in June. How much more are they asking for, above what we are replacing? Why in this economy are they asking for more? Yes, I want the kids to have a good education; yes, I want the teachers to stay. But if they want $10 more and I only have $5 in my pocket, I have to say no. I don’t have it.

Telling me to just have one less coffee or latte is insulting. And tell that garbage to the ones who just lost their retirement funds. Get another job? Who is going to hire a 69-year-old woman? Or a 77 or 82 or 91 year old?

Get a circuit breaker for your taxes? Have you ever seen one of those? Twelve pages long, and you need a CPA and a lawyer to fill it out. I have seen the elderly just throw it across the table because it was too hard to understand.

Don’t pull that guilt garbage on us. This time it won’t work. I am hanging on to my $5. And voting no, unless it is dollar for dollar the same as the one that is going to expire.

CECILIA GORS

Kootenai