Not good time for renewing county school tax levy

Is anyone else sick and tired of the school board’s relentless tax-em mentality?

Will homeowners ever catch a break from this current tax-more madness?  Do we need tons of school extra-curricular activities, assorted miscellaneous items to the extent that property owners are further impoverished?

And what’s with all residents can vote, but only property owners will pay?  This is patently unfair to business and homeowners.

Am I missing something here?  The U.S. economy is in the toilet.  The jobless rate is now at a 34-year high.  Economists see the longest recession, perhaps ever.

Home closing bankruptcy, unemployment lines abound, and retirees money is wiped out, but apparently school board members believe property owners are mere tax-serfs deserving of more misery.

What part of families are in survival mode do they not comprehend?

This whole issue of a tax levy at a time of massive local unemployment, and coupled with the current new high school bond tax burden, is dimwittedness gone awry.

And their pathetic reduction by $21,000 of the nearly $1 million tax levy proposal is a mind boggling joke.  All residents need to get to the polls next month and save our financially strapped families and businesses by voting no on yet another tax levy assault.

Taxing working folks and retirees into the ground is wrong, no matter what the school board believes or pitches.

Steve Douthit

Bonners Ferry