School levy

 It looks to me that people don't understand some letter writers on the recent school levy. We aren't against our youth learning and having all the tools they need these days to learn all they can, they are the future.

 The thingthat these people don't understand is the fact that the property owners always get stuck with footing the bill to take up the slack for the government short coming.

The property owners are tired of doing it. Like i said in a previous letter that the families that don't own land andjust rent either their house or apartment are not sharingthe responsibility of footing the bills of the government shortages in our schools and county.

 We need to find a way to take up the slack in which one particular entity, such as the property owners. Everybody should foot the bills.

My last letter on this levy was to submit a penny sales tax, but, it seems that nobody else saw the validity of this.

A penny extra tax would be paid by not only the property owners but, the renters who buy groceries and other products, along with the tourists and the Canadians, which do the most distruction to our roads and pay nothing for the privilege for doing so. Yes, I too am tired of getting taxed beyond all reproach.

But for this penny sales tax thing to work, we need to keep that one penny sales tax in Boundary County.

We can't loose it to the Boise bearaucrats and giving them more money to line their pockets in southern Idaho. That one cent could make Booundary County prosper again and our students would get the education that they deserve.

Nobody wants to see our students fail.

Tim Saunders

1979 BFHS graduate