Mayor Castro gets "Pre-K 4 SA" tax increase on ballot

The quoted $7.81 yearly increase in this article is based on one spending approximately $6255 a year in taxable products, or about $521.25 a month. This is obvious a smoke screen to bring in more revenue for the city, NOT necessarily for pre-k care. What would be an easy method of acquiring more money from the public during tough times, propose the money is going for a warm and loveable idea.....young children. If one votes for this, city salaries and benefits will rise while incomes in the private sector decrease. This is a government liberals dream.

vgonzales, If one has children, they are the ones that need to forgo the big screen television, and the dinner at Mc. Donalds. They need to put down the crack pipe, or the booze and read to their children, or surrender them to the state. Money does not cure social issues, which here are lazy parents who depend on others to fulfill their obligations. I am tired of supporting lazy people. If the shoe fits put them both on, then you have a matching pair.

This is what you get when you have 13% of registered voters come out to vote. You get Castro as a mayor. If you really want to do something, vote. Easy as that. They say that they have 7 other mayors to back him up. All Democrats. See you get the Dems in there and this is what they will do. They figure it's ok, so they just go crazy with your money.

The other thing is because it is a consumption tax in order to meet the $7.81 estimate you will have to buy $6248 of taxable goods in a year. Let's see, a $5000 car for the kid, an iPad, an iPhone. and a Mac book air and you are already over your estimated amount. Can't buy any more toilet paper! So, what do they base their estimate on? Is kool-aid taxable, 'cause they're sure drinking a lot of it!

The other thing is because it is a consumption tax in order to meet the $7.81 estimate you will have to buy $6248 of taxable goods in a year. Let's see, a $5000 car for the kid, an iPad, an iPhone. and a Mac book air and you are already over your estimated amount. Can't buy any more toilet paper! So, what do they base their estimate on? Is kool-aid taxable, 'cause they're sure drinking a lot of it!

The other thing is because it is a consumption tax in order to meet the $7.81 estimate you will have to buy $6248 of taxable goods in a year. Let's see, a $5000 car for the kid, an iPad, an iPhone. and a Mac book air and you are already over your estimated amount. Can't buy any more toilet paper! So, what do they base their estimate on? Is kool-aid taxable, 'cause they're sure drinking a lot of it!

The reality of this pre-k dream of Castro's, it can be done without a sales tax rate increase. The city can easily dip into their massive yearly reserve/surplus fund. They can freeze city employee salaries or cut back on the city employee 12% retirement contribution that is taken from our taxes. Have employees take more out of their salary than the measly 6%. The city has us by the throats and we as citizens are helpless as city council is controlled by the city. Our ONLY option is to vote NO this November and do it with FORCE!!!!!!! I refuse to pay for over-breeding illiterate illegals offspring.

and another thing Henry Cisneros had his HUD scandal and now “Obama For America” campaign co-chairman/Mayor Julian Castro has his – It’s “déjà vous all over again” (Yogi Berra).......................... “Former housing secretary Henry G. Cisneros pleaded guilty yesterday to a single misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI” – Washington Post – 1999 ...................... A developing HUD scandal concerning the fact that federal agents/ Administration officials AGAIN lied to Congressmen in an effort to hide massive criminal activity will rival the “fast and furious” fiasco when it exposes Obama’s ties to “Obama For America” campaign co-chairman /Mayor Castro and City attorney Michael Bernard (brother of White House social secretary Jeremy Bernard) who have been reported to the FBI, HUD, the DOJ, etc. concerning the criminal conspiracy to cover-up the long term theft/misuse of HUD and other funds by the City of San Antonio TX.( including the submission of false statements/audits to federal investigators in HUD-OIG case # hl-10-0465) ................. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9VL1nPBeak ..................http://www.sanantoniolightning.com/enemy10.html.........................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wVcy82mt7A...................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LbPQNVotVA

Henry Cisneros had his HUD scandal and now “Obama For America” campaign co-chairman/Mayor Julian Castro has his – It’s “déjà vous all over again” (Yogi Berra).......................... “Former housing secretary Henry G. Cisneros pleaded guilty yesterday to a single misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI” – Washington Post – 1999 ...................... A developing HUD scandal concerning the fact that federal agents/ Administration officials AGAIN lied to Congressmen in an effort to hide massive criminal activity will rival the “fast and furious” fiasco when it exposes Obama’s ties to “Obama For America” campaign co-chairman /Mayor Castro and City attorney Michael Bernard (brother of White House social secretary Jeremy Bernard) who have been reported to the FBI, HUD, the DOJ, etc. concerning the criminal conspiracy to cover-up the long term theft/misuse of HUD and other funds by the City of San Antonio TX.( including the submission of false statements/audits to federal investigators in HUD-OIG case # hl-10-0465) ................. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9VL1nPBeak ..................http://www.sanantoniolightning.com/enemy10.html.........................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wVcy82mt7A...................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LbPQNVotVA

@Vgonzales. There is no correlation between throwing money at the school system and getting results in the form of better educated children. In fact, just the opposite is true. The more tax money from all levels thrown willy-nilly at schools, the less pertinent the education has become. Just look at some of the schools and the money wasted in their construction and necessary for future maintenance. Take a look at Stevens or Brennan in NISD and you'll see what I mean. We teach more social, BS (and that's NOT Bachelor of Science) and our children are failing in the real world. Wake up sheeple! More money is not the answer, personal responsibility is. And it starts by taking care of your 4 year old yourself, and try feeding your other kids too, because I'm sick of footing the bill for their breakfast and lunch in the public schools.