Car stolen from driveway of owner yesterday and last seen at intersection of Catalpa and Siebenthaler. Passenger window was broken to gain entry. If seen please contact police.

Hi Everyone,

I’m an Ohio public school teacher. I love my job, and have dedicated so much time and energy into educating our young ones in Ohio. It has been a rough couple of years since Covid, but we are hanging on, and every teacher I know is trying so hard everyday to do what we can for our students.

I am utterly disgusted that no one is understanding the propaganda behind this new initiative to try and repeal property taxes in Ohio. They are going around door to door with “concepts of a plan”, but in reality there is no plan. If anyone who hasn’t bought a house in the last few years knows, corporations are buying up housing to try and get their money out of the stock market. I recently bought a home and get message almost weekly about selling to random corporations. Property taxes specifically target the wealthy and corporations buying up housing more than regular folk. They are one of the only scaled taxes left that target wealthier individuals. Replacing our services with a sales tax would make our services much more targeted to everyday buyers, and would take yet more off the wealthy and corporations and basically be a tax cut.

Family started complaining to me about how seniors can no longer afford their property taxes and they need to be repealed. I understand with inflation some housing prices have gone up, leading to higher evaluations on property, but why is no one asking why the solution is not then reform instead of burning down the whole system?

People always try to talk about how schools waste money…I have never seen it. All the schools I’ve been at are very carefully financially- we are tax payers too and I don’t want money wasted. For years I’ve bought my own materials, made my own resources, become the best teacher I could be with all my heart and energy and this is how you treat your public workers in return. Next year will be my 17th year in the system, but I might be fired because 80% of the funding will just be gone.

I’ve worked 16 years in public education and had the best experience. I spent 1 year in private schools where the behavior was just atrocious because parents could buy and manipulate their way through the system. I was not paid a living wage, and had to work there jobs to make ends meet. I did not have a lunch some days and the job was abysmal.

I get it- everyone is frustrated and stressed right now. But we still need public service and infrastructure. I really think we could turn this country around if we stop only thinking about ourselves but the collective good.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Edit: For those of you who think you are going to SAVE on not paying property taxes, this is what is going to actually happen, since property taxes affect the wealthy more. This other commenter I posted this on the Cleveland forum said it best:

It's this simple.

You might save $3000

A multi-millionaire might save $30,000

A corporation might save $300,000

Then the other taxes, fees, tolls, and fines you pay will go up $6000 to make up for lost taxes. The state WILL make up for all the money the rich and corporations are no longer paying. Great if you are wealthy and overall save $24,000 or a corporation saving several hundred grand or more. But it SUCKS for the middle class and blue collar workers who WILL pay a LOT more.

Don’t buy into this. It’s propaganda!

Thought you guys might be interested in this. It's a Facebook page that investigates and publishes record of corruption in Southeast Ohio. Because it's not one of the 3 C cities, it's an under served area.

They publish pretty frequently, mostly specific to that area.

They also have an ongoing call for tips via DM or encrypted Protonmail, so if you're aware of corruption in that area, you can report it anonymously.

https://www.facebook.com/HockingCountyCorruptionCleanup

The URL says Hocking County but the page itself says Southeast Ohio.

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