The fossil fuel industry pays the lions share of the taxes and passes that bill onto their customer, which in turn passes it on to their customer, which ends up on the shoulders of the consumer. Businesses could give two shits less about how much taxes they pay,they just pass on the bill.
Energy is fairly cheap in WY so not sure who is really paying WY’s tax bill. Must be the residents of ND. There is a reason taxes are cheaper in WY , they don’t spend like a bunch of democrats. Having industry foot the tax bill has been working out fairly well in WY except for the green scam taking a hit to the states fossil fuel industries
This really means little to nothing. This money includes all farm program spending and all military spending. Both of which we have a shit pile of. Remove those so that it is basically welfare received and we’re most likely in the bottom 10%
"with less tax money coming in maybe the people in charge will have to spend it more wisely"
All our governments, state, city and county don't know how to cut back because over the last I don't know how many years with the oil tax and raping Joe public they have had an unlimited supply of funds. Can't cut any assistance programs for the less fortunate because they squeal the loudest when they don't have the help from the government.
Minot public schools is a good example, a few years back they decide that they wanted more money to build a new high school and update existing schools, so asked the citizens to vote on a property tax increase, on the first vote it got voted down. So lets bring it to another vote, the second time they voted on it they did the vote in December or January and hardly any older citizens got to the polls because the weather was shitty or they were down south for the winter. My property taxes increased over $400 plus for a year just for the school taxes alone. Basically gave Minot public schools an open check book.
I saw that the other day. And I said the EXACT #$%^ing thing. People in charge love spending others money.Minot School Board looks at deficit of $1.3 million
MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) — The Minot Public School Board met this week to talk about opening the new high school in Minot, however, one major concern right now is the budget.
Minot’s elementary school’s enrollment is down about 100 kids from this time last year. This is a part of the issue that they are facing when it comes to their deficit. School leaders say they are down around $1.3 million in their budget because of the low enrollment.
They say the problem is only getting worse, and they could be down $6 million by this fall. The school board is now asking the schools to see if they can come up with creative ways to save money.
“Otherwise, they may end up closing an elementary school, but they are looking at every other option first. We’re looking at everything from soup to nuts. Everything from how we enroll kids to which courses we’re offering. How do we balance that in a way that we can operate and still keep the needs of our students in the forefront,” said Mark Vollmer, the superintendent of Minot Public Schools.
He encourages the public to attend the school board meetings. They want to hear your suggestions on ways they can creatively save money for their budget.
WHAT A FUCKING JOKE!!
No, not really. 100 kids split up amongst 13 grades is 7 per grade level. That probably one kid taken from each individual elementary class. So it’s not like you can cut a whole class based on that, or really much for support staff. The lights and heat costs the same. Now, if this happens for three years straight, then you’re talking. But with 90 percent of the budget going to staff, it’s tough to cut costs with blips in enrollment like this. The schools funding formula doesn’t really accommodate the situations either. It’s a challenge for sure, then throw in capital outlay expenditures like new buildings and you’ve got a mess.
What will be his retirement package from the school ?
Unquestionably this has and does occur. I don’t know specifics of course. It just doesn’t always equal out when you lose kids is my point. Or gain and overspend then just hung out like this.
I count 13 elementary schools in Minot on their website (11 in town and 2 at the base).
Are you counting the church schools too? Been twenty years since I lived there and they had about half a dozen then. Public schools that is
Just public: https://www.minot.k12.nd.us/en-US/schools
Wow. Well that answers that question. You can’t build like that and staff like that and expect anything but what you have now when enrollment goes down
