To the editor:

I am quite amused with the headline comment that the $63 million school bond up for vote in April will be a bargain as mentioned in the Journal-World on Feb. 10. After all, it will only cost you an extra 50 or 100 bucks more in property taxes if passed. What the bargain hunters failed to mention and are hoping we all forget about is the additional $1 billion bargain tax increase being formulated in Topeka to cover that court-imposed new tax for schools.

Let’s not forget that public schools already get over half of the entire state general fund budget each year equal to about $2.7 billion. And let’s not forget about the local option budget. You know that extra 25 percent of the entire USD 497 budget rubber-stamped by the school board. Finally there is that tax appraiser who is going to add another 10 percent to the value to your home this year turning that $50 or $100 a year in new property taxes into $150 to $300 or more. The bargain school bond that the bargain hunters are hoping for sounds like a good old-fashioned bait-and-switch to me.

Dan Eyler,

Lawrence