Although required by state law in order to meet a nominal legislative requirement, no one is taking the General Assembly’s mandate seriously…
Those students who do show, will be given busy work for a full day, and most of the high schoolers will be put to cleaning their teachers’ classrooms.
It appears that any school after Memorial day is pointless, unless it is to administer an exam…..
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June 12, 2014 at 6:56 am
Rob
Where are the Truancy School Officers in the Schools?. I guess w/ budget cuts & Corporate run Charter Schools, this vital position has no value and therefore Cut in the item line.
FYI- Philadelphia School District needs approximately $21 million to re-open next Fall. Students protested in the streets down City Hall yesterday. Meanwhile, Governor Corbit plans to build another Prison in NE Philadelphia. Would be interested in your analysis….
June 12, 2014 at 11:02 am
kavips
If so, that will have to come later. Plate is too full now… but as an off the cuff and non-researched statement, I would say the case by now is down to simply being forced to choose what has to take place now, over what would be nice to take place in the future….
You have criminals you have to do something with….. now… Your schools will prevent criminals in the future….
Of course… the real answer is investment…. To have the trillions of American dollars simply sitting outside the economy, be pushed back in… Since the private sector is unwilling to invest, the public sector must take over that duty as well…..
A tax structure like this, would with a clause in it allowing for the complete write off of money put into physical capital projects that year….go a long way to make that reinvestment happen….
Income over 400 billion…… tax rate of 96%
Income over 100 billion…….tax rate of 90%
Income over 50 billion…….tax rate of 70%
Income over 10 billion…….tax rate of 50%
Income under 10 billion……no change from current levels….
Along with these changes….
All income whether earned either foreign or domestic, is included in the tax.
All physical plant (new construction or renovation) built in the USA can be deducted directly off of tax owed…..
AS you can see, as a company reaches the top of each bracket, there is great incentive to split the company so both entities pay less… Which unfortunately means there will then be twice the administrations required for the same business… Twice the current chairmans of the boards. Twice the number of board members. Twice the corporation presidents. Twice the corporation vice presidents. Twice the number of administrative assistants….
In one sentence… we just grew white collar jobs…..
It will unfortunately increase competition, removing the high monopolistic prices we increasingly pay today…..
As with any business, one can become too efficient, and funnel too much money into the profit category… wearing the business into the ground through lack of reinvestment…. Then at one point, putting money back in…. because the cost has become so high… means no profit will be coming out for a while….
Smart business models go like this…. If your business profits $20,000 a month and your maintenance costs over 10 years will average $100,000 a year….. Instead of doing nothing and making $20,000 a month until something goes wrong and then losing money 5 months in a row…. It makes better sense to siphon off ($100,000/12months) $8333 per month into another account, write it off as maintenance expense and use for whenever emergencies or renovations are required… Report profit instead at $11,667 per month…..
The money doesn’t change… just the accounts you put them under. You will however, pay less tax by reporting less income.. even though nothing changes… You would have paid higher taxes on the higher income, but then, have paid no taxes on the months you made no income…..
This is what the US needs to get back to…. … Putting more money back into our economy by reporting less profits… We will still be making the profits, just not as cash… but as long term investments which we will still owe…
It is like buying land so your cash doesn’t get too high… You still own the land, and can sell it at some future point if need be…..
And the easiest way to do that…. is increase taxes on overly excessive wealth…. This probably only affects 15 people… and perhaps 25 corporations.
The answer to your question, is that until we move or at least, “threaten” to move in this direction… our public sector will always have too little money and will always have to choose to take care of “now”, even if it means the “future’ will become even worse through lack of any current investment……
June 12, 2014 at 11:14 am
kavips
(And I should add the point of my original post was not to argue for the addition of more truant officers to enforce an arbitrary line drawn in the sand……. but to arbitrarily move that line back to a point where we won’t have to hire arbitrary truant officers to enforce it….. )
Stop school after Memorial Day, Start students after Labor Day…..
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