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Speaker 1: But here's the problem. That's a problem the state takes

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Speaker 1: The problem is then they're angry when you don't do it.

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Speaker 1: And that's why they have it during an off time.

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Speaker 1: So you give away your taxes, you receive money from

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Speaker 1: Let's make it so we don't have to pay the

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Speaker 4: I've got something that I have sent to Bettencourt, Patrick

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Speaker 4: Amount compared to the school and if they can still

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Speaker 1: But it's not a pro rata property tax. It's an

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Speaker 1: This goes back to our state constitution. This was the

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Speaker 1: It's not like we've created a system and it's taken

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Speaker 1: property taxes, that's bonds that you're taking out. It all

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Speaker 1: It's crazy to me, everybody wants to teacher pay raise.

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Speaker 1: And everybody's wife, sister, niece, aunt, sister in law is

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Speaker 1: a teacher. So nobody wants to pay the teachers, less

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Speaker 1: set set what demons. Nobody wants to be a demon,

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be a grump. We got to pay

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Speaker 1: the teachers more. We hear it every election cycle, and

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Speaker 1: Republicans get out in front of this because guess what,

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Speaker 1: there's no real downside to spending more money. There's no

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Speaker 1: real downside to spending more money. This is what reagan

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Speaker 1: Omics taught us. For all the talk, Reagan never wanted

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Speaker 1: to cut anything. Reagan wanted to spend more and did

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Speaker 1: spend more. And nobody wants to admit that, but it's true,

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Speaker 1: and Republicans figured that out. Republicans talk we need to

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Speaker 1: tighten our bouts, but we need to really give some

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Speaker 1: relief to the taxpayer. So wait, we're going to eliminate

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Speaker 1: property taxes and pay the teachers more. How does that

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Speaker 1: work because they're going to pay everybody else at the

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Speaker 1: school as well. School districts are in some counties the

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Speaker 1: biggest governmental entity, and the superintendent's more powerful than the

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Speaker 1: state rep in that district, so the state rep won't

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Speaker 1: dare go against this. That's why school choice was heresy.

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Speaker 1: Can't have school choice because that would create competition, and

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Speaker 1: if we had competition. We might end up with better

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Speaker 1: education in smaller schools, taught by people who weren't professional

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Speaker 1: educators at the local school, with a big, fat retirement program.

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Speaker 1: Fact of the matter is, if you run the projections,

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Speaker 1: we cannot pay for police, fire teachers, government employees. We

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Speaker 1: are on a fast track to bankruptcy. But no Republican

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Speaker 1: will ever tell you that, and maybe they shouldn't because

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Speaker 1: no voter will reward you for it. But it's a fact.

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Speaker 1: You cannot afford the law enforcement, fire, and educators that

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Speaker 1: are that are being paid now when they hit their

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Speaker 1: retirement cannot afford it.