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To: Dasaji
The basic notion of "impact aide" is that the employer, the federal government, pays no school taxes, as a commercial company, even a Mom & Pop confectionary store would. In places were the federal payroll is large, this put a much larger burdern on the individual homeowners or renter, and thus impact aide was born.

However I thought it was a thing of the past. In Texas the lack of impact aide was a signifigent part of the scenario that led to the Edgewood court case and decision which in turn led to the "Robin Hood" plan for school funding by the state. Edgewood is a school district in a relatively (and in some cases absolutely) poor area adjacent to Kelly and Lackland Air Force Bases. Kelly had a huge civilian workforce and many of them lived in the Edgewood district. When impact aide went away, or at least was severly reduced, the district, which had very little other industry or commerical buisinesses at the time, was in a world of hurt.

Curious though why the Post Office and FBI would be excluded, although I seem to remember that when those forms were sent home back in the dark ages of the 1950s and early 60s, they excluded the Post Office too, but after all these decades, the memory is dim, especially since it didn't apply to me, although it did apply to my wife, whose father worked for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service.

16 posted on 12/12/2002 10:56:37 PM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato
However I thought it was a thing of the past.

I see by the link above that the program probably did go through some signifigent change in 1965, which is about the time I remember it "going away". So maybe it changed then, but has drifted back to something similar to what is was prior to that change.

17 posted on 12/12/2002 11:01:07 PM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato
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22 posted on 12/13/2002 6:44:36 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht
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To: El Gato
Curious though why the Post Office and FBI would be excluded

As a Postal employee, I'm pretty sure the Postal Service doesn't provide us any kind of housing. Don't know about the FBI. State Parks Service though provide housing for some Park employees - they then wouldn't pay the property tax that supports the schools in PA...

27 posted on 12/23/2002 7:06:32 PM PST by Kay Ludlow
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