A new tax levy is being put on the May ballot to benefit the Ontario (OH) school systems. Ontario successfully passed a 1 mil tax levy to make some permanent improvements to the schools. Now that the levy is expiring, they want a 1 mill levy put on the ballot to 'maintain' the new buildings and permanent improvements.

WMAN reports (last item) that "this levy would not be a tax increase, because one mill is coming off the bond issue." Since the measure is deceitfully* being sold as 'not a tax increase', it will probably pass.

* The fact is that it is a tax increase. As the law is written right now, 2003 taxes are set at X mills. They want to increase that level to X+1 mills through a bond issue on the May ballot. The liberal slant of "well, you aren't paying any more than you were in 2002, so it is not a tax increase" is deceitful.