Red states are paying...

[Stevious]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=1&u=/usatoday/townsofferfreelandtonewcomers

Towns offer free land to newcomers

Ellsworth's pitch is this: Agree to build a house here and pay nothing for the lot it's on. Got three kids in school? OK, that's worth $3,000 toward a down payment. Need jobs? We'll help you find them. Still not sure? Come visit, we'll show you around.

:silly:

[beyurslf]

1. Actually several KS towns have been doing this for a few years

now. One thing they have in their favor is excellent schools. KS funds these small town schools at a hugely disproportinate rate compared with larger school districts. The smallest school districts get as much as $11,000 per student while large and mid-size districts get about $3500 per student. Some of these small schools have state of the art computer labs and libraries, internet connections in every classroom, brand new gyms and sports complexes, and other amenities that most kids never get. All of this goes on while big school districts cut from the budget any copy paper or new textbooks (as they are doing in Wichita).
The state has been involved in an almost decade long legal battle over that now. Finally the State Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional and a fix is required by April of this year. (Education is the ONLY thing mandated by the Constitution of Kansas for the state to pay for and provide.) Of course, the conservatives in the legislature have spent their time on the important things like gay marriage and teaching creation and what not. Education funding has been ignored again.

[Anakin Skywalker]

4. KS schools seem to want

to revisit Scopes Monkey Trial. No thanks!

[maxsolomon]

2. keep encouraging driving at any cost

take the entire western thrid of kansas & turn it back over to the buffalo.

same goes for the whole swath of the high plains from montana to texas.

[Ian David]

3. They want to attract people there to build a bridge to the 18th century

Why would anyone want to move to a state where they want to ban gay rights and mandate creationism?

I'm sorry, I'd rather move to Iraq.