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Government
• What exactly in the world is the government?
• “The government will take your money”
• “The government says you can’t do that”
• “The government makes me pay taxes”
• Tell me……what is the government?
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government
• There are three levels of government. This will be a test question! The three levels of government are:
• National (also called the Federal)
• State
• Local.
• All three do different things and have different powers. You will be affected by all three in your life.
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What is the government?
Barack Obama, President of the United States – leader of the National Govt
John Kasich, Governor of Ohio. Leader of the state govt.
Susan Haugh, Mayor of Wellsville, Ohio. Leader of the local govt.
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Local govt
• You will likely never meet a President or a Governor. These are the leaders of the national government and the state government.
• Most of your life, you will be dealing with a local government.
• In Wellsville, that is the mayor and the city council. The mayor is the boss, but the city council must vote to accept what she wants done – like hiring a police chief.
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Local government
• Local government is anything in your county, city or town or village. For us, it is anything in Columbiana County or anything in Wellsville.
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Local government
• Here’s what local government gives us – know this:
• Police and firefighters
• Schools
• Hospitals
• Water
• It takes care of roads
• It makes traffic laws
• It also enforces laws
Former Police Chief Joe Scarabino
Fires in Wellsville, 2014. Put out by local government workers
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Local government
• Local government provides us with most of the stuff we need in case of an emergency. It also provides its people with an education.
• Is it free?
• No!
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Local government
• It takes a lot of revenue (Rev – in – new) to run the government. Revenue is a fancy word for money.
• Revenue is collected to pay for schools, roads, fire trucks, police cars, teachers, police, firefighters and a lot of other things you don’t even think of.
• So, where does the revenue come from?
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Local government
• So…how to they get the revenue? Through taxes. Lots of taxes.
• 1. Property taxes – people who own land, a house or a business (know this!) pay a tax. This is how schools in Ohio are paid for.
• The bigger, nicer, more expensive area there is, the more property taxes a school gets. The more taxes a school gets, the nicer it is.
• In other words, rich people that pay more taxes usually live in good school districts.
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Lets compare
• The Orange School District is located in Pepper Pike, Ohio.
• Orange City School District -- Pepper Pike, Ohio. A VERY rich suburb of Cleveland.
Class of 2014 They have a robot building class
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Lets compare
• Pepper Pike only has 6,000 people, Wellsville is only a little bit smaller than they are.
• The average income for each person in Pepper Pike is $150,000.
• 94% of their population is either white or Asian.
• They spend $21,000 per student per year.
• Orange High School was recently named one of the 10 best high schools in the United States.
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You vs. pepper pike
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Pepper pike
• Here are four random houses currently for sale in Pepper Pike, Ohio:
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Pepper pike vs. wellsville
• Wellsville has 3,500 people.
• The average income for each person in Wellsville is $26,198. Pepper Pike was $150,000.
• 97% of Wellsville is either black or white (90% is white).
• Wellsville spends $11,000 per student per year.
• Last year Wellsville High School was named one of the best 80 schools in the state of Ohio. We were the smallest school to be selected.
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Is it fair?
Wellsville• Small city/village
• Do not have a lot of money
• Poorer people
• People with little money cant afford expensive houses.
• The less your home costs, the less tax you have to pay.
• Wellsville schools do not get a lot of tax money.
• We had to lay off teachers and do not have many elective classes.
Pepper Pike• Small city
• Have lots of money
• Rich folk
• Rich people buy big, expensive houses
• People with expensive houses pay lots of taxes
• School live off of taxes.
• More revenue for schools, the better they are.
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So remember…
• Property taxes make a lot of revenue (money) for local government. Most schools, police and firefighters are paid for using this.
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Other ways local government gets revenue
• Sales tax – taxes added onto things you buy in your city, county or local area.
• If you go to Gibby’s and buy a $1.00 pack of gum, you will pay about $1.07. Why? You paid 7 cents in tax.
• At the end of the year Gibby’s gives all of their tax money to the city of Wellsville.
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Other ways local government gets revenue
• License and permits – If you have your own business you need a permit. It is just another way for them to take your money. If you want to build a house you need a permit too.
• Other things you need a permit for:
• Fishing
• Hunting
• Driving
• All 3 cost money. All money goes to local government.
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Other ways local government gets revenue
• Fines – any speeding ticket, crime or traffic violation leads to the local government getting money.
• Some cities LIVE off speeding tickets and fines for small, stupid crimes.
Police can use a radar gun to see how fast you are driving
In 2014, Ohio police officers wrote more tickets than any other state
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Tickets and fines
• 41 MILLION people in the United States get at least one ticket per year.
• The average cost of a speeding ticket is $150.
• In all, local governments around the country made $6.2 BILLION in revenue from tickets.
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Other ways local government gets revenue
• There is one more way local governments get their money:
• The state that they are in gives each of its cities or villages some money throughout the year. This money may be for a specific thing (like to fix a bridge) or the money can be spend on anything.
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Local Laws
• Every city or village has its own laws. Some are weird and some make sense, Just know this: laws are made to make people safer.
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Local laws
• Local governments have laws about animals.
• People must have a license for their dogs. If their dog hurt someone they can get in trouble.
• Most cities have laws about what type of animals you can have as a pet.
• Animals have laws for them too. If you are caught being cruel to an animal you can go to jail.
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Local laws
• Disturbing the peace
• This is being very loud in public
• Challenging someone to a fight
• Swearing loudly in public
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Disturbing the Peace
• You do have free speech. You don’t have the right to be stupid.
• This law is also called Disorderly Conduct
• Other stuff that will get you in jail:
• Bullying a student near a school
• Knocking loudly on someone’s door to wake them up
• Letting your dog bark loudly for a long time
• Playing loud music at night
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PARTYYY
If you are going to have a party, don’t be too loud.
If the cops show up, turn down the music
If not, you could go to jail.
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Local laws
• No smoking inside public buildings
• In Ohio you cannot smoke inside public buildings, like the mayors office.
• Sometimes you can’t smoke in bars, too.
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Smoking in public
If a bar is caught letting people smoke in it, it can be fined $100 to $2,500.
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Local laws
• Trespassing – breaking into someone’s house or business. If you do damage while trespassing it is called vandalism.
• Example would be if someone broke into your house and broke all of your windows.
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Trespassing
• If you are on someone’s property and they tell you to leave, you have to leave.
• If you don’t leave – you are trespassing.
• Trespassing usually means a fine or time in jail.
• Fines can be DOUBLED it you trespass on a vehicle
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vandalism
Vandalism – destroying someone’s stuff on purpose
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vandalism
• Doing anything bad to other peoples’ stuff is vandalism.
• Robbery and taking property
• Gang signs/art
• Threats (KKK)