Have you ever seen a shark take a seal. It's an amazing sight. Something like that is beginning to happen in some public school districts in California. School administrators and the unions are taking the future in order to nourish the present. The schools along the California coast and most of the rest of the state are under the control of leftist ideologues and their union allies.
They have created a new type of financing called "Capital Appreciation Bonds" in which interest accrues but isn't paid for at least twenty years so the bond indebtedness isn't amortized over the entire term of the financing. That protects the current taxpayers at the expense of future taxpayers most of whom either aren't in existence or at this stage of life are minors. The youngsters are the ones who will pay.
"...The Poway Unified School District may be California’s poster child for exotic school bond financing, but it is by no means alone in San Diego County.
As I detailed in my story yesterday, Poway Unified borrowed $105 million last year using a form of financing called a capital appreciation bond. The district won’t start making payments on the loan until 2033, and by the time it’s paid off in 2051, taxpayers will have paid back almost $1 billion, or almost 10 times the original loan.
As I point out in my story, capital appreciation bonds have become increasingly popular across the state, since they allow school districts to borrow money now without raising taxes on current residents. Instead, the burden for paying for the bonds is pushed to future generations, who are left on the hook for loans that are wildly more expensive than conventional bonds..."
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/educa...a4bcf887a.html
They have created a new type of financing called "Capital Appreciation Bonds" in which interest accrues but isn't paid for at least twenty years so the bond indebtedness isn't amortized over the entire term of the financing. That protects the current taxpayers at the expense of future taxpayers most of whom either aren't in existence or at this stage of life are minors. The youngsters are the ones who will pay.
"...The Poway Unified School District may be California’s poster child for exotic school bond financing, but it is by no means alone in San Diego County.
As I detailed in my story yesterday, Poway Unified borrowed $105 million last year using a form of financing called a capital appreciation bond. The district won’t start making payments on the loan until 2033, and by the time it’s paid off in 2051, taxpayers will have paid back almost $1 billion, or almost 10 times the original loan.
As I point out in my story, capital appreciation bonds have become increasingly popular across the state, since they allow school districts to borrow money now without raising taxes on current residents. Instead, the burden for paying for the bonds is pushed to future generations, who are left on the hook for loans that are wildly more expensive than conventional bonds..."
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/educa...a4bcf887a.html