It angers me that several cities offer some version of school vouchers while suburban and rural (read: “white”) parents are stuck with the bills - while unable to pay private school tuition. As my diocese contracts, few of the urban schools are left; there was simply no benefit to operating them when there were practically NO Catholic students left.
Exactly. Parents who pay tuition for private or parochial schools aren’t exempt from the schools portion of their property taxes. So they’re paying twice.
Also, if you’re a homeowner, you’re still paying schools taxes even after your kids are grown and gone, while renters are exempt.
Sure, the landlord gets to incorporate the property taxes into higher rent. But then the sky-high rent needs to be “subsidized” for low income and single parents, by ...guess who?
Taxpayers, of course. Three strikes.
They ought to be offered to every family regardless of race, income, residence, etc., but I think to get it going, it makes sense to start where the needs are greatest. The tax impacts are negligible because it’s diverting funds that are already going to schools, just instead of union-controlled, overpaid bureaucrat-run daycare centers, it’ll be going to schools that actually try to educate.