| kzks - 6/4/2025 17:38
JONSCK Its just like the local patron arguing that the new school bond issue is only gonna cost the average homeowner the value of a takeout pizza once a month. It's not the cost of the once-a-month pizza that the patrons hafta sacrifice, it's the thousands that they're already paying in taxes. I sure K BAG and everyone else on here can afford the $50 bucks, that's not the problem. It's the $50 bucks on the other 200 loads that they took. You don't get it. It’s not $50. Its thousands. DUH
The new school bond..
When I moved back here.. 30 years ago.. The new school bond passed here by.. a knifes edge. $3.7 million for a new high school. Passed.. built.. my kids graduated from it.. paid for.
The next couple districts over.. are still attending their 1950s dated unsafe schools. The number of tax paying farmers who are now twice the size.. keeps shrinking.. vs the number of towns people who will vote yes.
So someday a new school or consolidation will happen. Last number I heard was $20 million to do a partial rebuild.. in a district.. where the largest land owner is an out of district corporation.. who doesn’t get to vote.. and frankly probably doesn’t care. Edit add.. they do.. but on the list of concerns.. “they got bigger fish to fry. Like who the next Governor will be.. etc..”
The 20 or 30 something millionaire farmers are gonna get crushed in taxes.. because they pay them.. and they own a chunk of the land. The big corporate farm is gonna get bigger.. absorbing.. some of the bigs..
“So, $50 million to buy ya out.. sure who do we make the check out to? The heirs of the dead big? No problem.”
and the smaller weekend warriors.. some of whom are teachers.. are gonna get a new school.
That’s the reality here.
Before ethanol corn was $2.35.. (and seed corn was $85/bag)
Today Corn is $4.35.. (and seed corn is $385)
200 loads x $50 check off = $10,000
200 x 1,000 = 200,000 bu x $2.00 more = $400,000 - $10,000 = $390,000 to the good.. minus added costs.
I think even KBag (whom I actually agreed with in another post over something.. I know I was shocked myself..) benefits under the math.
Of course he’s also going to be paying taxes on a $30 million school bond some day.. (I’ll be watching that one with my popcorn.)
Under a democracy.. when the average household income is say.. $75k
Even if you make.. 4.. 5.. 10.. or 100+ times that.. you only get 1 vote. Those making less also get 1 vote. So in regards to taxes.. they get to decide.
The biggest real estate taxpayer here.. is an oilman. Lol he.. edit add.. does not support.. Trump.. and Frankly.. did mue bueno $$$$ better under Obama. Even though probably didn’t fully embrace that administration.. Crazy world. And probably hates ethanol also.. although briefly considered building a plant during the boom.. so.. idk.
So it’s more complicated than it appears.
NO DOUBT that the KBs have benefited from the checkoffs. The fact that they don’t acknowledge nor support it.. is.. fine. Let the Billionaire Corporations take it over.. it’s the death of the small multi million dollar farmers anyway.
KB just comes across as being petty to me. But I’m sure I’d find something which we agree on over a beer.
Crying over his $50/load ain’t gonna be one of them.. cry me a river.
edit add.. our $3.7 modern paid for high school.. would probably cost $37 million? Okay Maybe only $25 million today.. Greensburg.. destroyed in a tornado.. was I believe $35 million.. or more.
I didn’t vote for the bond.. back then.. THANK GOD my wife did. We’re good.. for now.
$3.7 million.. chump change today.
Edited by JonSCKs 6/9/2025 08:09
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