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# Harrison Bergeron cited in case against capping taxes
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/harrison-bergeron-cited-in-case-against-capping-taxes/
- Published: 2005-05-12T10:03:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:45:16.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Social justice, Society & economy

![The future of education](http://www.factorycity.net/blog/wp-images/20050512_-_barcode.png)

It seems like my [good friend](http://www.factorycity.net/blog/?p=17&ref=chrismessina.me) Harrison Bergeron is [being invoked](http://www.ljworld.com/section/schoolfinance/story/203889?ref=chrismessina.me) in an effort to increase [school funding allocation in Kansas](http://www.ljworld.com/section/schoolfinance?ref=chrismessina.me). School advocates contend that funding is inadequate and unevenly distributed across rich and poor districts. As such is the case, posit that "capping local taxes on schools \[is\] unconstitutional" and handicaps students' abilities to receive a decent education. But apparently aside from the well-written brief that the students' lawyers prepared, Vonnegut suggests that they didn't quite get [the story](http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html?ref=chrismessina.me): "It's about intelligence and talent, and wealth is not a demonstration of either one.". "Kansas is apparently handicapping schoolchildren, no matter how gifted and talented, with lousy educations if their parents are poor," he said. State attorneys had a curious rebuttal to the effort to lift the caps: "I would classify this as the Johnson County viewpoint of the world," Rupe said. "This kind of viewpoint exists when there is not adequate funding for all schools," he said. *Hmm. So you're suggesting that because there is inadequate funding for education, people have unenlightened views? Really... you don't say.*