Board of Education v. Williams

Respectfully, I dissent.

The majority’s “equitable” decision that the cost of collecting school taxes must be based on the proportion of school taxes to total taxes collected ignores our state constitution as well as statutes enacted by the Kentucky General Assembly. Section 184 of the Kentucky Constitution provides: “any sum which may be produced by taxation or otherwise for purposes of common school education, shall be appropriated to the common schools and to no other purpose.” Section 180 of the Constitution requires every tax to be devoted to the purpose for which the tax was levied and…