My response to a Richardson ISD assistant superintendent quoted in The Dallas Morning News equating school district budgets to retiree’s fixed incomes.
School district incomes are fixed alright
I find it a little sickening that Richardson ISD assistant superintendent Tony Harkelroad would equate bloated school district budgets to retirees living on a fixed income (Dallas Morning News; Monday, June 30) in an article about school budgets.
You’ve got a fixed income alright, Tony. Every school district in this state benefits from being able to tax home and property owners almost out of their homes.
Don’t make the analogy of a retiree about to lose his or her home due to excessive taxes to your majority-of-our-tax-bill school district.
If financial straits were so crucial, why do districts keep giving raises during bad economies?
Joey Dauben
News Editor
The Ellis County Press
