Friday, August 18, 2006

Less government in Illinois - start with the school districts!

Illinois is bloated with levels of government, each with their own buildings, political kickbacks and other wastes of huge amounts of tax payer dollars. Mosquito abatement? Townships, cities and county's? Park Districts? Four school districts in the same town of 25,000?

A great law would be if the races are uncontested for several elections in a row then clearly the taxing body is broken and should be folded up into a larger one.

For this post, let me propose that Carbondale's 3 elementary school districts and CCHS are combined into one. This model works well almost everywhere else in this world and even if there wasn't a reduction in total spending, there would be lots of financial efficiencies to be found.

Your comments are welcome.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Actually, there are four elementary school districts - Carbondale, Giant City, Unity Point and DeSoto. But I get your point.