Posted on 04/27/2018 6:57:31 AM PDT by george76
In Douglas County, Colorado, the front line of the fight for school choice and vouchers on the SCOTUS level, Republican voters outnumber Democrats about two to one. Yet until recently, Republican taxpayers .. paying about $1.25 million a year to fund Democrats’ political campaigns.
How so? Most of the district’s 4,300 plus teachers belonged to the local American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, to which they paid about $1.25 million in dues annually, according to the union’s IRS filings. Since teachers’ salaries are paid by the county’s property tax payers, their dues come out of those salaries. So the $1.25 million annual dues end up in the coffers of the AFT and that money is funneled to the campaigns of Democrats running for office. That’s a lot of Republican-bashing TV campaign commercials and mailers.
The AFT and its allied union, the National Education Association (NEA) are among the country’s biggest contributors to Democrat candidates and political groups. From 2004 to 2016 their donations ballooned from $4.3 million to over $32 million – a new high. And 94% of that money goes to Democrats.
Which is especially galling for Douglas County Republicans because 60% of them voted for Donald Trump, even while they were funding Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign through their teachers’ union dues.
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The national teachers’ unions have long interfered in Colorado’s elections, trying to boost pro-union school board candidates and sink conservative, reform-minded board members. They poured over a quarter million into Douglas County’s school board race in 2013 and over $285,000 to defeat the Jefferson County conservative board in a recent recall election.
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The main issues are school choice and merit pay for teachers, both of which are poison apples for the union.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Exposure is what Liberal thieves fear the most! Organize and get active in your school districts. Attend school board meetings and out their theft and Liberal propaganda in the curriculum! Use the Freedom of Information Act to request whatever you want in your school district. The only items they don’t have to give you are personnel records and land acquisition information.
In School Districts Everywhere, Christian and conservative teachers (an ever-diminishing group) are browbeaten and ridiculed into Democrat-supporting submission.
VOUCHERS!
When you buy a car and its built by UAW workers, your paying for democrats.
The same when you buy a house built by union carpenters.
Or when you hire a union plumber or electrician.
Taxes are just the means by which teachers are paid for their services.
Problem is...I don’t have kids.
I AM paying for something I’m not even using.
The same with parents who send their kids to private school.
Close US Dept of Education. Defer to the states. End public schools.
My wife and I were both teachers in the People’s Republic of New Jersey.It always pissed us off that NJEA and NEA backed Democrat candidates 99% of the time and we had no say where our dues money was used.
Outlaw public unions!
Exactly why Scott Walker took care of this in Wisconsin. The difference has been amazing. No longer do the teacher’s union have their heavy thumb on the scales of elections with both money and forced campaign workers.
Some school districts have a school holiday on Election Day though few, if any, schools are used as polling places. The holiday frees up teachers to electioneer and/or drive voters (mostly Dems) to polling places.
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Problem is...I don’t have kids.
I AM paying for something I’m not even using.
The same with parents who send their kids to private school.
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Even parents w/ children LONG after K-12...
Why property taxes should be abolished and private accounts for school options available. Open lines of credit w/ deferred payments akin to college or, better yet, biz funded (student grads in field XYZ, they work for biz ABC for # years)
“Outlaw public unions!”
Yup
Easiest fix (and coach it as getting $$ out of politics):
Make it unlawful for any non-voting entity to donate ANYTHING (time, resources, research, $$)...NOTHING, ZERO, ZIP, NILL, NADA.
Have it so anyone that CAN donate must be from the region for which the office exists (county for county seats, state for state seats, etc.)
Can’t pull the lever, can’t influence the electoral process.
The average cost nationwide, for public education is over $10k a year PER STUDENT
That's $120k over 12 years, per student
Average property taxes in the US are $3300
That would require 36+ years of taxes
(If property taxes ONLY paid for public education)
or, better yet, biz funded (student grads in field XYZ, they work for biz ABC for # years)
That's called indentured servitude.
polling places by me have ALWAYS been schools.
bump
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Even parents w/ children LONG after K-12...
The average cost nationwide, for public education is over $10k a year PER STUDENT
That’s $120k over 12 years, per student
Average property taxes in the US are $3300
That would require 36+ years of taxes
(If property taxes ONLY paid for public education)
or, better yet, biz funded (student grads in field XYZ, they work for biz ABC for # years)
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1) That’s the cost of GOVT run education. Unions, pensions\bennies, overhead, admins...Free Market will bring it down considerably.
2) Add it into the ‘cost’ of raising children to the age of 18. Not like it’s an UNKNOWN\out-of-the-blue need.
>That’s called indentured servitude.
?? Only to those of us bearing the burden for OTHERS. Pay your way or FIND another way; nobody is owned anything from another
I can’t endorse that highly enough.
There is NOTHING in the Constitution about government schools. They need to get out of the ed biz now.
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