all right are we paying too much in taxes and are we getting what we pay for
what's your opinion
well it's kind of a broad subject uh i i think there are some areas where we where we uh pretty well
you know get our money's worth but i i i also think there are a lot of areas
especially in uh big government federal government uh where we're we're short changed
uh lot of money spent for
uh
things that are not used and i don't know i was i was in the Air Force and out of it there were there was equipment at every base i was ever on that was just going to waste it was just sitting and rusting and
you know it
okay i i tend to agree with you when it comes to government spending there are so many studies done that don't mean anything
yeah
but we'll spend hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars on
yeah
and it's nice to know something doesn't work or something doesn't exist but
it could be put to more practical use
yeah and i i think that uh it's a a tone of our times that politicians
uh are into themselves more than they are into you know doing something worthwhile for the people they represent which which is really unfortunate
that is true i agree with you in that area
um i have a tendency to i'm in from Texas and i read you know how our politicians voted each week in the paper
yeah
and it's you know it's interesting how
the votes vary and what they ran on in platform
um-hum
don't necessarily come true in their voting in the Senate or Congress whatever
and don't really respond to uh people who write them and call them and uh you know unless they're in the limelight and under pressure
so
yeah i think we get short changed on that
right that's very true what state what state do you live in
Texas
okay what do you think about Robin Hood
now that
well
i work for school district and uh it's it has hurt us a lot
um there has to be some way i think to equalize education opportunities
but um at you know our uh we we tend to think i think this especially big government tends to think that the solution to everything is to throw money at it
and i don't you know that's just not true i don't think the
you know i don't think money is gonna take the place of intelligence or uh problem solving skills uh i think there
there are too many things that money can't uh that can't that money can't buy that that are important as far as education is concerned
that's true what school district do you work for
Richardson
okay i work for Plano so we're comparable as a matter of fact i just paid my Richardson taxes because i live in Richardson and
oh great okay
yeah
supplemented the Robin Hoods very thoroughly i think
yeah i think we've uh
our taxes went up tremendously
we yeah we've got it on the line don't we
yes
and it's not gonna get any better don't i mean you know it just keeps going up and up and up
uh i used to live in the Plano school district and uh
there was a an organization a taxpayers organization that uh finally communicated the message to i think to the people in Plano that you know we didn't want our taxes raised
yes i remember that was about four five years ago
yeah
yes
but this you know this uh
i think living in Richardson we're kind of spoiled because i think we get we come closer to getting our money's worth as far as the city is concerned
i think then probably any city any city in the country
yes well did you read in the Dallas paper where they increased the teachers the administrators' pay by thirty three percent
is that incredible
after they laid off all those teachers
that's a that's the biggest mess i've ever heard of you know
how can you how can you justify raising anybody's salary if you you know if you have to lay people off
right but you know i'm not gonna complain because Plano got we all got a pay raise this year
yeah
you all got a pay raise this year am i correct
yeah well yeah the i think teachers did uh did and i don't know about administrators i i'm semiretired and i was i was an administrator
so i i you know i don't get a raise anymore i just
okay
uh i work part time and just get uh you know my pay doesn't change
are you on the early retirement
yes
oh are you enjoying it
yes very much uh course i still i still work two part time jobs so it's not really total retirement
hm
well it's interesting you know because when you look at what Richardson has done with the early retirement you
