For some reason, the old, WRONG idea that more money means better education just simply will not die. Across North Carolina, all sorts of ideas are being floated with one, single goal: to raise more money for education.

Of course, this is just after $300-$700 MILLION dollars of new money passed the legislature in form of gambling for education, aka North Carolina lottery. But as is always the case with bureaucrats in the education system, it's just not enough.

I actually saw a show on ABC news with John Stossel last week where he asked a SC educrat how much money she needed. She said, "more." He asked if there would ever be enough. She actually replied, "No, there will never be enough." So the actual, stated goal of education is "MORE." And of course, they can ONLY get that money by taking it from me and others who actually work for it.

They are considering property tax fees, "impact taxes," "transfer taxes," and additional sales taxes. Know what's common about all these? They're all hidden. In other words, they won't actually send you a bill, instead they'll hide the extra costs from you.

Most people don't notice property taxes because they're escrowed with their mortgage payments. Don't believe me? Go ahead and ask any homeowner in NC how much they paid in property taxes. I bet less than 1 in 10 can actually answer that question.

Impact taxes and transfer taxes are even more hidden -- you agree to buy a house and in that 10-foot tall stack of legal papers, there's extra fees that just get tossed into your mortgage and settlement papers (and yet they're forming a study group to determine why so many people default on their mortgage payments).

Get government completely OUT of education -- and it will improve drastically by HUGE leaps and bounds -- as it has done everywhere else in the world where government gets out of the way. Government education is BAD and getting worse.

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