Quash the Lauderdale County School Tax?

Now comes the Lauderdale County Superintendent and Board of Education entreating voters to head to the polls in August to reauthorize expiring property taxes that bring in $6 million annually to the county school system. Their standard plea that this is “not a new tax” may prove far less palatable to Lauderdale County voters in the present day than in years past, now that the Board has enthusiastically conspired with the AG Center Cabal to siphon many hundreds of thousands of dollars away from county schools each year to help fund a boondoggle project that no one voted for and that will prove itself to be more of a monument to the political hubris of its backers than a necessary public asset.

So if you support the decisions being forced down our throats by these autocrats, then by all means, please hurry to the polls and vote for the renewal of these taxes. After all, these leaders of ours must have the purest of motives at heart, their decisions doubtlessly guided by Divine Providence. Isn’t that what Romans:13 tells us? It's a good thing that our Founding Fathers did not subscribe to a literal interpretation of that particular scripture with respect to King George III. And with respect to the suspicious behavior of our school leaders and our state legislative delegation, their motives for disposing of taxpayer dollars as they have lately appear to be far from pure and aimed at something other than the public’s best interest.

But more than the need to develop a healthy distrust of all politicians, there is a greater lesson to be learned from the clandestine dealings of our public school leaders, the lesson that government owned and controlled schools are themselves anathema to our heritage as sons and daughters of Liberty. They are the metastatic cancer that will inexorably reduce the American spirit of fierce individualism to the servile pawn of totalitarian utopianism. True and pure education is a commodity that should be subject only to the natural forces of a free market, not the self-righteous dictates of any particular notion of truth or justice.

Humbly submitted for your consideration by...