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March 26, 2009 Assembly cuts school budget to make room for special tax breaks for three peopleBy Ray MetcalfeYesterday the Anchorage Assembly voted to cut funding for Anchorage schools by $3.8 million. 
On July 20, 2004, the Anchorage assembly, voted to exempt developers John Rubini, Leonard Hyde, and Ted Stevens brother-in-law Bill Bittner from the requirement to pay property taxes on one thousand and sixty-eight housing units they own. Each housing unit is worth about $170,000. They received the units almost for free, compliments of Uncle Ted and they collect over a half million dollars per month in rents. If their units were taxed at the same rate every other apartment owner in Anchorage pays, each unit would produce about three thousand dollars per year for the Anchorage treasury. Three thousand dollars times one thousand and sixty eight units could be producing over $3.2 million per year for the Anchorage treasury, but the Anchorage assembly would rather kiss Rubini's a - - than educate your kids.
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