Apartheid. USA 1988

September 16, 1987:

A Federal District Judge in Kansas City, Missouri, in a move to wipe out the vestiges of racial discrimination in the Kansas school system, has ordered sharp increases in property and income taxes to pay for sweeping improvements. The order by Judge Russell G Clark nearly doubled the Kansas City school district's property tax rate and increased by 25 percent the amount of state income taxes paid by anyone with earnings from activities or employment in the district.

The property levy was designed to wipe out a deficit estimated at 27 million dollars a year in the budget for a broad array of school system improvements that he had previously ordered, including dozens of ‘magnet’ schools designed to attract students from suburban schools and private schools in the city.^144.

144. The New York Times, from a report by William Robbins