Anti-Property Tax Issue Proponents are either extremely dumb or extremely deceitful

Either way, their claims about school administration are monumentally stupid.

Look, I don’t know the guys running the anti-property tax issue, but wow are they stupid and really fucking weird.

I mean, look at this clown Brian Massie sitting behind a Resolute Desk replica, thinking he’s some kind of alternate-universe President cosplaying as a shades-wearing trucker. Once again proving that money can’t buy you brains.

Morons running Ohio’s anti-property tax campaign pretend to be President and cabinet. Just like a bunch of kids playing make believe would. Or adult morons would.

When asked to explain how services like parks, police, fire, developmental disabilities, zoos, schools, roads, bridges, etc. were supposed to replace $24.7 billion in revenue, these numbskulls actually think it’s all public education’s fault.

Because of course it is.

See, these geniuses think that that all Ohio’s public school districts need to do to continue educating Ohio’s 1.6 million school children competently is “cutting costs and reducing unneeded spending, particularly with public schools. Massie [King of the Morons] said he thinks the consolidation of school districts should be considered to decrease administrative costs.”

Look, I know these numbers are really, really big. And they may scare someone who thinks wearing a trucker hat with shades behind a fake Resolute Desk makes him look, I dunno, awesome? But that is just fucking stupid.

You know how I know that? Because the state tracks actual spending in public school districts. You wanna know how much school districts spent on administration with all revenue included — local property and income taxes, along with federal and state funding combined?

That number is $3.3 billion.

Which leaves a $21 billion hole.

So even if you got rid of all spending on administration in public school districts, you’d still leave a $21 billion budget hole!

See?

Morons.

Which means either you create the largest income and/or sales tax increases in state history (creating the largest income and/or sales taxes in the country) to make up that difference, or schools, police, fire, EMS, developmental disabilities, zoos … um … close.

They don’t consolidate, like these morons think.

They fucking close!

Because removing that amount of money isn’t some stupid Declaration of Independence cosplay, like these idiots think.

Did you also notice, by the way, that the amount that would be lost if you eliminate property taxes is just about the total amount of money that Ohio public school districts spend in a year?

I mean, these idiots don’t know the scale of their folly. I guess that’s why they’re idiots, though, right?

All this stupid measure does is declare us independent from good roads, bridges, schools, zoos, fire, police, EMS, etc.

I was encouraged to see that they felt the need to pull the little stunt they did yesterday to claim they’re halfway to the needed signatures to get on the November ballot. See, you need at least double the number of signatures you really need to guarantee you’re on the ballot.

Again. Morons.

So in order to get to 413,000 valid signatures, they need 826,000, not the 600,000 or so they’re targeting. So they are actually only 37 percent of the way to getting what they need to get on the ballot.

I’m also glad to see an anti-moron group has sprung up to fight this absurdly stupid effort. Don’t take anything for granted, even Titanic stupidity.

And look, I agree that property taxes are too high.

But the reasons for that are pretty straight forward, starting with the General Assembly and Governor’s decision to stand up a second, private school system in this state, which has robbed state revenue for public schools and forced them to go the ballot more often and for bigger money than they used to. Also, the state not long ago required a crazy property tax revaluation that drove up the charges. Finally, Ohio has consistently cut taxes for rich people and businesses while foisting the responsibility onto homeowners.

This is based on Ohio Department of Taxation and Education Policy Institute data as compiled by my friend Claude

What happened? Well, lots of things actually. There’s been an explosion of tax abatements, as well eliminating wholesale taxes on businesses like the Tangible Personal Property tax.

You also may notice that the shift to homeowners has happened under nearly exclusive Republican control of the Governor’s mansion and General Assembly starting in 1992.

Wanna guess the political affiliation of these anti-property tax people?

Despite Massie ( the dude trying to act like a Trucker President) claiming he’s “non-partisan” on this issue, here’s his actual voter registration:

You guessed it. Republican.

So this is the guy who’s bitching about property taxes being too high when it’s been Ohio Republicans like him that have forced homeowners to constantly raise their property taxes over the last 30 years.

Now you understand why instead of fighting the Ohio General Assembly’s failure to properly fund public education for the last 30 years while they divert taxpayer money to unaccountable private schools, cut taxes for rich people (like Massie and his buddies) and foist the formerly shared property tax responsibility from businesses and homeowners to mainly homeowners, Massie and his clown carnival say, “Fuck it. Burn it all!”

Because they’re morons.