July 2017

Sioux Falls School Board Member Kate Parker calls petitioners who can do simple math ‘Sinister’

l3wis July 6, 2017 4Comments

I will make this very clear from the beginning. I am not sure if the TAX-OPT out petitioners got enough signatures to turn in tomorrow. I can also tell you, I am NOT a fan of Lora Hubbel and her teabagger ways, but to call someone ‘sinister’ for doing simple math is ridiculous;

Beddow’s concerns are shared by Board President Todd Thoelke and Vice President Kate Parker, who called the robocalls “sinister” and “misinformation.”

The conflict stems from a school board meeting last month, in which the five-member board unanimously approved an additional opt out from the property tax limits to the tune of $5 million annually for 10 years.

Yeah, let’s talk ‘sinister’. Up until last week, I thought the OPT-OUT was $5 million OVER 10 years. In fact, that was the statement the school board made during the meeting they approved the tax. Even at the time, I said to someone “While I don’t agree with the opt-out, kinda seems like peanuts to me.” It was never really explained in the meeting that this was $5 MILLION, PER YEAR, for 10 YEARS! Which equals $50 million.

Uh, ok. Not peanuts.

So who really is being ‘sinister’ here? The petitioners that did simple math, or the School Board for misleading taxpayers? I’ll support a tax increase, but when you have to go on the sly to get it done, forget about it.

And can we trust them when they say things like this?

Board members have said repeatedly that they don’t intend to take the full opt out amount, only what they need to keep the bills paid.

So I ask this question in defense? If you are not sure if you need the money, than why take the opt-out? BECAUSE! THEY INTEND TO TAKE THE FULL AMOUNT! You don’t take a loan from the bank and say, “I only need four grand, but what the heck, why don’t I take out six.” Well maybe you do, and you are no smarter than our school board.

I think that is one of the things that angers me besides the misleading about the entire amount, they seem to think tax payers need to believe the hook line and sinker notion that once a tax is implemented that government won’t take all of it.

LMFAO!

From the dawn of taxes, they will be taken and they will spend it all, and it will NEVER sunset, or be refunded.

But what makes this even more hilariously tragic is one of the school board members admits the petitioners math is correct, but they wouldn’t dare go after all of it.

On Thursday, Thoelke said definitively that the board will not take the full $50 million over the next 10 years.

His concern is that the robocall makes the board’s decision sound “complicated and sinister.”

“It’s just a shame that they have to go to those tactics to scare people,” Thoelke said.

Then why ask for it? I don’t order a 12 oz ribeye if I am only hungry for a 4 oz sirloin. People should be scared, of your lying.

Mary Buysse, SD Learn leader, stood by the group’s robocall, which went out to 18,000 households in Sioux Falls on Thursday. Buysse’s group paid for the calls.

 “There’s no scare tactic,” she said. “A $5 million opt out for 10 years is $50 million. They can say they may not use it, but we don’t know that.”