The strong, centralized command that Stalinists have long exercised over their Empire of Public Education is beginning to weaken. Their original funding was designed to come primarily from property taxes. In the post-depression days, when they built their Empire of Public Education, property taxes seemed a far more reliable way to loot the peasantry than the less stable wages and salaries of the day.
For nearly a century, America’s property owners have been consistently and thoroughly plundered by their local school boards, each one obedient to the dictates of the vast unions whose demands for “More!” took fiscal form in relentless property tax increases. Those taxes have reached a point that they have devalued the underlying of the homes that are assessed.
Obedient to the Empire, recent Congressional pressures forced banks to lend money to people who couldn’t afford houses. That kept the assessed values of property high, subsidizing the Empire’s ravenous need for funding. When borrowers could not repay, the housing market collapsed. Taxes have not yet gone down to reflect the loss in value. When reassessments are forced through, the Empire may actually see less funding available from property taxes. Then, they will push for more state aid from income, sales, and other forms of taxes.
That will bring them into battle with other Empires, like the Trotskyites, who are building their own Environmental Empire. Competing, tax-dependent Empires are beginning to fight more viciously among themselves. They are already beginning to pick at the dying carcase of the Post Office Empire.
