Hillary Seeger: The math used for raising education funds does not work

To The Daily Sun,

Regarding a letter published on Aug. 12, indicating state education funds could be raised with no broad-based tax. The electricity consumption tax is a broad-based tax. It would raise the electric bill for every consumer in the state. SWEPT is already allocated to the local schools, so that $364 million can't be counted as "found" money to provide further funding from the state. If the New Hampshire Communication Services Tax were to include internet services, that once again could be considered a broad-based tax because it would raise the internet bill of each and every consumer in the state. The math doesn't work.

Rather than looking at ways to get more money, we should be looking at ways that money is spent (and I do not mean teachers' salaries). For example, if we brought school lunch back to the schools rather than contracting with food services companies, we could probably give each student in public school free lunch and reduce costs in the process. I have math that works for that last one.

Hillary Seeger

Alexandria