Saturday, March 11, 2006
More Special Interests Contribute to Woodstock District 200 Tax Hikers
And, folks, the tax hike committee for Woodstock School District 200 keeps reeling in the big special interest fish. Actually, the analogy would be better to the rain forest animal featured in my son’s second grade rain forest presentation this afternoon.
You remember. The one that can grow back a limb or tail that it loses.
Most corporate creatures giving money to a tax hike committee expect the missing part to grow back…and it probably will. My study of Carpentersville District 300 vendor contributions showed that the vendors contributed an average of ½ of 1% of the school business they got.
Would you excuse me if I think that Aramark Management Services may be or want to be a vendor to District 200? It wrote a check to the tax hikers for $500. Aramark supplied Woodstock schools with towels, according to 7-27-4 board minutes.
And for land companies like Inland Land Appreciation Fund II, which gave $2,500, perhaps a fertilizer analogy might be more appropriate. It joins the list of developers who sprinkle a little fertilizer on the school soil and fields of corn and soy magically turn into gardens growing children. The children’s schools and education are then put into the perpetual care of the school’s taxpayers, if the tax hike referendum passes.
There are certainly enough Inland Real Estate signs about Woodstock. Could it be the two are somehow related?
And, there’s another bank. While not matching the Harris Bank’s $5,000 nor the American Community Bank’s $1,000, Amcore did write a check for $500.
If the placement of school accounts were based on contributions, I’d say Amcore is in big trouble. Maybe American Community will get extra credit for contributing first. And, didn’t Amcore’s predecessor the First National Bank of Woodstock compete pretty evenly with the State Bank of Woodstock, it’s across-the-street-neighbor, which Harris bought? Now, Harris has a 10-1 advantage in the tax hike giving game.
(Yes, yes. I know. Contributions have no impact upon with whom District 200 does business.)
For the rest of the articles on companies and individuals who want to raise your taxes in Woodstock in a big way, click here.
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You remember. The one that can grow back a limb or tail that it loses.
Most corporate creatures giving money to a tax hike committee expect the missing part to grow back…and it probably will. My study of Carpentersville District 300 vendor contributions showed that the vendors contributed an average of ½ of 1% of the school business they got.
Would you excuse me if I think that Aramark Management Services may be or want to be a vendor to District 200? It wrote a check to the tax hikers for $500. Aramark supplied Woodstock schools with towels, according to 7-27-4 board minutes.
And for land companies like Inland Land Appreciation Fund II, which gave $2,500, perhaps a fertilizer analogy might be more appropriate. It joins the list of developers who sprinkle a little fertilizer on the school soil and fields of corn and soy magically turn into gardens growing children. The children’s schools and education are then put into the perpetual care of the school’s taxpayers, if the tax hike referendum passes.
There are certainly enough Inland Real Estate signs about Woodstock. Could it be the two are somehow related?
And, there’s another bank. While not matching the Harris Bank’s $5,000 nor the American Community Bank’s $1,000, Amcore did write a check for $500.
If the placement of school accounts were based on contributions, I’d say Amcore is in big trouble. Maybe American Community will get extra credit for contributing first. And, didn’t Amcore’s predecessor the First National Bank of Woodstock compete pretty evenly with the State Bank of Woodstock, it’s across-the-street-neighbor, which Harris bought? Now, Harris has a 10-1 advantage in the tax hike giving game.
(Yes, yes. I know. Contributions have no impact upon with whom District 200 does business.)
For the rest of the articles on companies and individuals who want to raise your taxes in Woodstock in a big way, click here.
To return to McHenry County Blog, click here.
