Quick Thought - Another view of "Neal Kurk’s Assault on the Truth" - Amelia M Keane is economically illiterate - Granite Grok

Quick Thought – Another view of “Neal Kurk’s Assault on the Truth” – Amelia M Keane is economically illiterate

Tweet Kurk 1Ed does a good job at taking apart NH State Rep (and House Finance Chair) Neil Kurk who deliberately wanted SB193 to fail and used all kinds of #FullOfShiff reasons to deliberately state untrue (IMHO) crap to persuade the ignorant-of-the-real-workings of the bill. You’d think that he’d think the whole thing over even if just from a political aspect – the more teachers, the more in the unions (because school districts / school boards have been “union captured”) means more money for the unions in dues.  And where does that dues money go?  Yes, a lot of it (the NEA and the ATF have historically been amongst the unions giving heavily to Democrat issues and Democrat candidates.  So, go thank your local Republican for making it harder to elect Conservatives/Libertarians to replace Democrats in office.

That’s one thing out of the way – back to Amelia who showed her ignorance (or is lying – take your pick) on how taxes get applied.  She’s absolutely wrong.

For the Nth time it doesn’t matter between the local towns and cities, the counties, the Planning Commissions (oh, you didn’t know about this level of government?  Shame on you for not reading the ‘Grok!), the State (of NH), and the Federal level who is spending what kinds of money.  It doesn’t matter if a lower level “up-shifts” their spending to a higher level (or a higher level “magnificently” decided to take on that burden.  Nor does it matter if a higher level down-shifts their spending, as Amelia Keane is suggesting, to a lower level (e.g., the State downshifting to the local levels).  It really doesn’t matter at all.

Look at your property bill – there are 3 components: local, county, and State.  It all adds up to X amount of dollars you will have taken from you.  It doesn’t matter if it is $100 + $100 + $100 or if it is $150 + $100 + $50 = it will be the same amount (unless of course, some level of govt decides to take advantage of the change and ups their amount but that’s another problem).

It doesn’t matter because the entity that is receiving the bill has to pay it all.  Period, all the time.  Yes, YOU pay it whether it is being charged by the town, the county, or the State – you still have to pay it – it just comes in different parts of the bill.

So Amelia, the seemingly union hacktress, is promulgating the Democrat line.  Let’s also add, she doesn’t care a whit what your bill is and she says exactly that: “We need to support public education”.  She just might as well said “We need to support our local unions” or “We need that money to give to the Democrat Party”; both are correct and will happen.  They are fighting against this because they know that it is possible that private schools, charter schools, home schoolers, online schools, or any other hybrid choices that PARENTS might make in directing their childrens’ education probably will not involve teachers that are involved with unions that form the bedrock of the Democrat Party and are a BIG Special Interest Group in seeing that Government never grows smaller – only larger.  That’s what Government (and the unions in it) demand.

Amelia Keane is fine with that.  So it, it seems, NH Rep Neil Kurk.

Way to go, buddies-in-arms: move that Democrat agenda forward.  Sure, Amelia must have been ecstatic about the outcome – Kurk is just helping the NH GOP commit  their own assisted suicide (politically speaking).

But to the main point – like many teachers, Amelia is about as good at micro- or macro-economics as a rock.  Politically, she’s on the ball; she knows where the butter is coming from for her bread and you and I are paying for it.

Do I need to remind you what an absolute BANG UP job teachers are doing as a whole? I wonder if Kurk can add one + one and see that we’re ending up with zero.

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