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I am from Connecticut and I am considering moving to Cary or Chapel Hill due to the socialism experiment going on here. I am actually on a committee for "Hands Off Our Schools" which is the most outspoken grass roots movement against school regionalization in CT.
What school regionalization, and the 5000 other bills being proposed in CT (literally 5000), is about is tapping into the rich property tax base in the wealthier communities with all of CT's major cities essentially bankrupt. Wilton, where I live, received 3 cents back on the dollar in state income taxes last year for the schools. After these bills pass, we will get nothing from our state and our property taxes will be funding neighboring cities- outrageous. I paid $33,500 in property taxes last year so if we get regionalized, it will be an easy decision to move to Raleigh or even Chapel Hill where I would pay a third of that to live in nice home.
Connecticut legislators look at these other areas like Wake County and justify regionalization on these grounds; but they overlook that we pay a steep price to live in these towns and to have these schools with a close community connection. There is a reason Connecticut has been dead last economically in the country for the last decade: short sited decisions to fund budget gaps created by overly generous state pensions and health care. Connecticut is a case study for why socialism does not work.
I am not even an ultra-conservative and I have many democratic friends that call it "socialism". I know Chapel Hill is very liberal but I feel comforted that overall North Carolina leans conservative despite having only two Republican governors in the last century.
Socialism will not solve our wealth inequality problems, it will only make it worse because the public sector will continue to crowd out the private sector and stifle free enterprise and the incentive to work and take risks! There will be no opportunities for the have-nots. I sincerely hope North Carolina does not fall into the same trap with the educational elites and the limousine liberals that have ruined our state!
I am not even that conservative- I'd call myself middle of the road-seriously. Chapel Hill that liberal?
90% of my friends are Democrats, we get along fine, and even they are shocked about what is going on here. But I'd be interested to hear about Chapel Hill because one thing I can't stand is people who are in your face, no matter what their ideology is!
Liberal here (in my experience) is a New England Moderate. I mean I was raised by two Reagan Republican parents who would be be considered that dreaded RINO by most of the people in my social circle here (and I supposed Rs more broadly in today's day and age). Given where I stand on issues, its no wonder I keep quiet hahahahahahahaha. The one friend I have here who has openly stated himself to be a Democrat is right of me (and I've voted for Republicans more than I have for Dems at the national level).
Wilton is in Fairfield County right? I admit I am less familiar with Wilton than I am with Darien and New Caanan (friends from college) but correct me if I'm wrong....isnt the median household income in that part of CT like a quarter million bucks?
There isn't a locale in NC that comes close to that.
I am not even that conservative- I'd call myself middle of the road-seriously. Chapel Hill that liberal?
90% of my friends are Democrats, we get along fine, and even they are shocked about what is going on here. But I'd be interested to hear about Chapel Hill because one thing I can't stand is people who are in your face, no matter what their ideology is!
Middle of the road people don't throw the word "socialism" around like a cudgel, imo. Or at least i don't.
Middle of the road people don't throw the word "socialism" around like a cudgel, imo. Or at least i don't.
Modern American political discourse makes me wish I could go back to my Econ 110 - Political Economics (in the Marxist context) course at UMass Amherst and challenge my prof more than I did at the time.
"Sir, what you are teaching us the term Socialism to mean is not how anyone in America uses it!"
What the OP describes is exactly the model used in Wake county (which includes Cary), Durham, and most of NC; where the school system is county wide. I can see where some would prefer to have school districts segregated by socio-economic status, but that seems to put those who are already severely disadvantaged in an even deeper hole. FWIW, I live in one of those areas that is taxed to help support portions of the district that are not as well off, and I'm quite happy to be doing so.
In the Triangle, the closest the OP will find to what they are looking for is the Chapel Hill/Carboro school district, which is separate from the rest of Orange County. Is the area conservative enough for the OP? <shrug>
I could be wrong, but what I think the poster meant is "If I'm going to pay 33k a year in taxes for regionalized schools, I may as well go to Cary where I'll pay 8k".
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