[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Damn. This girl's got Moxie!

[sinkspur]

Dillon will pay the tax or have a lien put on her property.

And, if she continues to refuse to pay all the tax she owes, she will lose her house.

[little jeremiah]

IMO it's high time for a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party. More or less. If tens of thousands, or better yet hundreds of thousands, refused to pay taxes or a good portion of thereof, something might change for the better.

But I don't expect it to happen.

The fedgov and states are bloated like termite queens with spending which is so out of control I don't see any rational cure.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"I don't get any use out of it, so it's wrong for them to make me pay for it."

People who don't have children have to pay school taxes, too, and they don't get anything out of it either.

I can't pick and choose how much of my Federal tax or Massachusetts state tax (I live in NH but work in MA) I am willing to pay. I have to pay it all even if I disagree with how that money is used.

She may lose her house? Good! The Free Staters can move and pull their publicity stunts somewhere else.

[CO Gal]

Everyone benefits from a well educated society (not that public schools are the answer, but you get the gist) Would she rathter pay for welfare and a lower standard of living? Suck it up, pay your taxes.

[Tired of Taxes]

My kinda person! :-)

I'm with her all the way... on the school tax issue, anyway.

[Baraonda]

"Freepers: Your thoughts on this?"

Reimburse taxpayers with an educational tax credit. Vouchers won't do it as it is a wealth redistribution scheme.

Phase out the Education Department.

[kingu]

Geeze, what silliness. I'm starting to think that these folks are really in love with seeing their pictures in the newspaper and reading their quotes on the net. To fight her argument, the state merely has to say that 'oh, you see, none of her tax money will go to schools. They'll pay for the fire department and police department.

There's no way to nail down any particular dollar going to any particular government program. Beyond, it was a Supreme Court decision that said that public education was a requirement. Better use of her time would be to protest the tens of millions spent by the schools to pay for health insurance for domestic partners of teachers and administrators. The millions wasted on outrageous superintendent salaries. The tens of millions wasted on retirement programs for janitor or untrained staff positions.

End result: she'll lose her home if the tax bill isn't paid, and whomever gets it at the lien auction will be happy with the deal. Come to think about it, this isn't all that bad of a deal for the freestaters.. The price of one home for national exposure? Pretty good deal.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

Taxation until the host is bled dry. Several interesting comments on the thread.

Schools, IMO, should be 100% locally funded and locally controlled. And NOT funded by mandatory property tax. Locally people can figure out how they want to fund them. The Dept of Edu needs to be erased from the face of the earth, along with a whole bunch of other Depts.

Some people seem to think this woman is grandstanding. Well, maybe she is and maybe she isn't. Maybe she's courageous enough to take a stand for something that, if more people stood up as well, could make a difference for the better.

Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.

Note: The reason I'm including this in "Moral Absolutes" is because schools are currently functioning as hedonis/atheist-securalist/multiculturalist/leftist-socialist/homosexual indoctrination centers. That needs to change, one way or another.