Thomas Jefferson |
THOMAS JEFFERSON "I
place economy among the first and most important
virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers.
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load
us with
perpetual debt. If we can prevent the Government from wasting
the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for
them, we will be happy."
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phones & addresses of all LI elected officials
What has happened to the
USA? What is a Republic ... Must see Video
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NYS Schools Over Tax Homeowners by $880 Million
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Tom DiNapoli |  For Comptroller Report State Comptroller office identified $880 million in excess
funds unnecessarily held in reserve accounts, missed cost savings and
questionable payments by school districts across the state. DiNapoli’s office completed 733 audits of all of the
state’s public schools and BOCES from
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CAP
School District Pensions at $80,000 |
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Sandra Peddie
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Jumbo
pensions' spark state funding debate (Newsday)
2007-8
gross
Teacher & Administrator salaries
Teacher
can retire at 73% + no state tax or with 3 years at 55
Annual LI
retired Teacher & Administrator TRS pensions
Annual LI
Retired NYS employee pensions
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| PROPERTY TAX CAP |
Andrea Vecchio
EJ McMahon |
For the Original 2008 New
York State Tax Cap Bill Summary Gov Paterson turned
his back on
property tax cap
 For 2009 New York
State Tax Cap Bill Summary
For 2009 New York
State Tax Cap Bill For 2008 New York
State Tax Cap Bill
Andrea
Vecchio’s Speech to the Governor |
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Kerby's
Korner (research,
news clips & wow ) |
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Graham Kerby
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Kerby’s korner NYS Education Statistics simplified
Anita's Clips the interesting School news articles
Laura Pandelakis Understanding the Property Tax crisis
Tax
Savvy’s truth about US educational
results The clock is running out for Long Island
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| Actual Municopal spending,
member Items, Salaries |
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Franklin The new republic could
survive only if the people were virtuous in the sense of attention to
civic duty and rejected corruption.
NY
Public Payroll Clips (state-local
union contracts -salaries + much more)
Cuomo’s Project
Sunlight (state-local member
items + much more)
NYS
Open Book (county,
school, town and special
district actual spending) |
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2009-10 Budgets - Salaries - Report Cards |
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2009-10 Budget
Est
Tax Levy Fund
Balance used to reduce taxes)
Nassau Budgets $4,919,287,997
$3,783,400,234
$137,376,240
(last yrs overcharges)
Suffolk Budgets
$5,312,849,880
$3,319,108,690 $142,212,111 (last
yrs overcharges)
Long
Island Budgets $10,430,988,386
$7,102,508,924
$279,588,351
NYS Mandates everything and
only pays $2.8
Billion. LI Homeowners pay $7.3
Billion
Cost Per
Pupil ...
Nassau 206,119
Students
2009-10 Cost
Per Pupil $23,866
... Suffolk
245,894
Students 2009-10 Cost
Per Pupil $21,590
$1.26
Billion of Taxpayer overcharges are sitting in School District Banks
Suffolk
Co Reserves
$456,166,098 & Un Appropriated
Funds $164,836,681
Nassau
Co Reserves
$466,946,307
& Un Appropriated Funds $173,831,044
2009-10 School
Budget Vote results for all Long Island Districts
2009-10
all LI School Budgets -Taxes
For all LI School websites
It's OK
for Boards to present fraudulent contingency
budgets
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TAXED
ENOUGH ALREADY LIFER TEA PARTY VIDEO |
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serch site)
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School budgets-
taxes-salaries
For Long Island’s Educational
structure
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New York leads the Nation
in K-12 Spending |
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NYSED
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Long
Island
per-pupil spending averaged
$21,378
in 2007,
and $25,029 in 2008
New York
led the nation in K-12 spending in 2006-07 ($15,981 per pupil)
The State’s per pupil
spending was 65% above the national average($9,666)
The Property Tax share was
48.4 % the
national average share was 44%
New York per pupil salaries was
$11,042, 88% above the National average
The State’s per-pupil spending
salaries exceeded the spending
of 37 states
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Why
people are leaving Iong Island |
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Goodbye LI
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Click for LIFER on how to save Long Island
The
source of repressive Long
Island taxation lies in the
restrictive legislation passed in Albany
at the behest of special interest groups to the detriment of the
taxpayer. Shifting the source of revenue from property taxes to income
taxes does nothing to stop the spending.
According To The Rauch
Foundation click
for survey. 56% of Long Islanders
said it was somewhat or very likely they could leave Long Island in the
next five years. 85% state property tax increases are a serious problem
and 67% believe Teacher-Administrator Salary and Benefits are the
reasons behind school tax increases.
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Curriculum |
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LIFER on Curriculum
Long Island Index Report...
Failure in Education
Report Sees a Failure in
Educating All Students
Does
Class Size improve education?
Why
are public schools so bad at hiring good instructors?
Does hours of homework
helping your child make the grade?
Education
Myths … What special interest groups want you to believe and why.
WHOLE-LANGUAGE
vs. PHONICS EXPLAINED
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Campaign
for Fiscal
Equity
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The
Campaign for Fiscal
Equity is
it a judicial give-a-way to the property barons
of NYC so they can maximize rental profits and property
values? Or is it
the end of School
Property
Tax? The ruling
says the state (not the local taxpayer)
is constitutionally
responsible
for providing
a K-12 education. Click
for the lawsuit,
Zarb report and opinions
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Holding
School Districts Accountable
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Click
for MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG's “The
fact is our education system looks a
lot like the US auto industry in the 1970s- stuck in a flabby
inefficient,
outdated production
model driven by the needs of employees"
Click
for MAYOR
BLOOMBERG's Union
OK merit pay for teachers
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Holding
School Districts Accountable
by
Joseph Sawicki, & Tom Spota
Suffolk Grand Jury Report
critical of School Districts
Suffolk
Grand Jury recommendations
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Summary Audits Related to
School Legislation
School District Financial Accountability
Report
Center
Moriches used deception to pass a 40%
tax increase
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