My wife and I are beyond child rearing age, have no children, and won’t ever have children. How much of my income are the people in my area entitled to for educating their children? I am not the one that had them, I will gain no benefit from them, they are only a financial burden to me with no return. Much of taxation is like this.
Taxation is an evil redistribution of wealth. And REPUBLICANS often don’t see themselves as getting WELFARE, but you are...You are getting many people’s money to raise your children, to subsidize your life.
Don’t give me that “common good” or “community good” BS either, I am responsible for MY actions and MY behavior. You should be responsible for yours. If you hate OBAMACARE you should hate public school taxes to educate the children of middle class and wealthy families.
Democrats think that they deserve my hard earned income, so do Republicans apparently.
You choose where to live, and you know the rules/laws governing taxation. My wife and I sought out a place to live where taxes were low and found a great little borough that has no schools. Ergo, there is no school tax. The one exception is that there are some kids in the borough that are shipped off to a local township for schooling. Our borough pays only the per child cost. While it would have been better if the parents paid for their own kids, at least our borough doesn't have to charge thousands of dollars to cover the cost.
ps - total property taxes are around $2500, and I'm in NJ.
I agree with you 100%! Living in Anne Arundel County in Maryland, my wife and I pay $5000 a year in property tax. We have no children, but if we did they would NOT go to public school! A family with six little kids in the apartments down the road pays nothing, yet reaps the benefits. Why is there not an exemption for those with no kids in the system?
I just wanted to say that I agree with you 100%. My wife and I never had any children (didn’t want any) but we are so “privileged” as to be able to support others’ children. We pay about the same amount of school taxes as you do.
It would be nice if the governments of the two jurisdictions that we pay property taxes to had some sense of what is fair. But that’s hoping for way too much.