Jackson Jambalaya

Well, would you prefer that they default?
It's a big shit sandwich and yes, we all have to take a bite.

What really bites is that property taxes are being raised on properties that are declining in value!!!!Most of the time by 50% ! Well hell...I was going to take my new appraisal down to the Chancery this week to ask for a decrease!

The voters have spoken. The vast, overwhelming majority of which don't actually pay property taxes because they don't own any real estate in Hinds County.

Strike that. The moochers have spoken.

Meanwhile, North Dakota votes to abolish property taxes

you deserve the sandwich served if you go to establishment that doesnt pass standards-- of anything.

When 81 percent of voters in 2006 approved a $150 million bond issue to build more schools and improve others, that meant they were willing to have property taxes raised to pay that debt.

Blatantly false. During the run up to the election all the pro-bond mouthpieces (which included many of the debt happy RINOs that the Democrats whore out) went out of their way to explain that the bond payments would be handled WITHOUT any millage increases because existing (at-the-time) JPS bond issues were due shortly to be rolling off the roll as payment was nearing final payment.

Jayne is full of shit.

Exactly like, during the election, when it was specifically promised that a new junior high was going to be built in NORTHEAST Jackson only to have that modified immediately after the election to a new junior high in NORTH Jackson.

This marks the begining of the fall of Rome. Expect twice as much "white flight" upper income families. And I know Jackson been in the shit hole for a long time meople what do you mean fall of Rome.

meople @ 6:35: are you answering the voices in your head in your post?

@ 8:50 some of the Jackson stomping trolls have become very predictable. Just trying to save us the time of them hijacking this thread with repetitive Jackson bashing. Is that ok? Is it?

Very damned few (if any) elected officials in Jackson could give a rip. The people who keep voting them in are not property owners. Very damned few department heads and thousands of other City of Jackson employees could give a rip. The people who control their jobs are the ones voted in by non taxpayers. Very damned few of the thousands employed by the school system could give a rip. The school system is the biggest employment agency in the state's brokest and largest city and nobody can touch those jobs or upcoming pensions. In short, nobody gives a rip except a few property owners, and if they're dumb enough to live there, they're not smart enough to protest.

Go Meopple!

Is Meople the son of Mott the Hoople?

Throwing more money at the schools is not the answer. The intelligence level of a disproportionment of the graduates is so low that the students have to take remedial courses to get a job or to get into a college.

It's difficult to legislate parental responsibility, however, something has to be done to get the parents (or single parent) to take more interest in the education of their child. Part of the problem is that so many of the parents don't know enough to help their children with their homework. This has been happening at least since the mid 60's when I was a young man. My family left Jackson in the mid 70's. I hope that Jackson and other areas can get the education system educating students rather than just socially passing them to the next grade level. Good Luck Jackson!