It is interesting to note the history of Public Education in the US. We went into some of this in this article but there’s certainly more to think about.

Basically, the Northwest has been big on education since the Northwest Ordinance was founded. Millions of acres have been set asside for school funding in the Northwest.

These resources over time have been userped by private interests, the federal government, and state funding to other things. For example, it appears that about 70% of the forest that was originally set asside for just education is now used for roads.

Then there was a 3% sales tax added in Idaho that was sold as another solution to the education funding problem. This has slowly been eaten away from the schools via “exemptions” which means this or that thing to fund comes out of the 3% that was for the schools.

We then have HB1 passed to “restore local control” which really was just an excuse to lower taxes and take what was lost from education funding.

So here is my theory – here is the formula for eeking out ever increasing taxes from the electorate:

It’s for the Children!

This in general is the way you bait and switch. Claim this tax increase is for something really important, something we simply can’t live without, and then allocate massive funding to that utopian idea.

Ok, here’s a chart to show how Idaho is funding education:

Then, slowly over time, while no one is looking, eat into that huge piece of pie a little each year. Start a new program. Build an extra building. Hire more admins and increase the bureaucracy to increase the complexity of it till nobody can figure out what is going where and why.

Then, point out the lack of funding we have for “the kids” and whalla, you got yourself another nice tax hike.

Inflation is evil but it is happening because we don’t use constitutional money – that is, uninflatable gold and silver.

Now we have a very significant percentage of Idaho lands under control of the federal government which is not allowing us to access the real wealth of our lands, gold, silver and trees among other riches.

In exchange for that we get paid by the federal government in the form of phoney IOUs called “Federal Reserve Notes” that can be printed at will and which naturally lose their value over time, while those resources in our lands never lose value.

Such a deal.

And what are we getting for our money? Great education? Homeschoolers seem to do better than our public education system by far:

This old trick and ones like it have been done to us over and over.

How long will we let them snooker us?

Vote NO and get involved to take back your property, your rights, your sovreignty, and your life.