The Brian Lehrer Show

The rebate on property taxes is simply outrageous, disgusting and one of the dumbest ideas I've heard.

These are the people who should have the taxes raised.

Bloomberg lowers taxes for property owners like TRUMP and the like.

If he wanted to slash taxes reduce the taxes on people making less than a $100,000.00 and raise taxes on people making a million or more.

The lower property tax just reduces services and can be devastating to education.

This mayor can not be out of office soon enough.

The teachers who are highly experienced, and so at the higher end of the pay scale will be the first target of many principals who just want to fill classrooms at the lowest possible cost.

Many teachers in the pool of unplaced teachers are victims of this problem.

The best way to cut the budgets would be to eliminate Assistant Principals (who make $120,000+) and replace them with department coordinators, who are teachers with classroom teaching schedules. This was the practice in the past and it would improve overall teaching quality as well as reducing school budgets.

One can't help but wonder whether this scrutiny of Lasik is being driven by the optometry industry? I've had the procedure and so have others I know and have not heard anyone complaint. Not that those experiences can speak to all, but one still wonders.