I'd prefer to have it that only parents pay for the services. Why should I, without kids, be saddled with this?
>>>"I'd prefer to have it that only parents pay for the services. Why should I, without kids, be saddled with this?<<<
Get the Government out of the Education Business and we can achieve your Goal! The Government is good at spreading MISERY thin so it isn't as objectionable.
Can you IMAGINE the quality of Education that Parents would DEMAND if they were the only ones paying for it? You could kiss those Teacher Unions GOODBYE, the Monuments to politicians that house the Education process would disappear as well.
Why should you, without kids, be saddled with taxes for public education?
Numerous reasons, the first being that you were likely the recipient of a public education yourself. Possibly your parents, too.
Payback time.
If you never have children and if your family has completely shunned public education, your economy, your state, and your nation is better off with an educated populace.
Your dollars are better spent on education than on welfare any day.
Just the fact that you are on FreeRepublic tags you as blessed. Grumble as we will about our government and its requirements of us, no society has ever lived as well as we do.
Public education is one of the ways that we fulfill our pledge to "promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
Well now, that's just too darned sensible to fly. I think non-parents could/should escape taxation to support schools IF the state got out of the business of K-12 education entiredly, which is itself not a bad idea. But to keep the state schools in business then assess only parents an education tax is likely to ensure that most parents can never afford to send their kids to any system other than the government/union monopoly.
My kids are grown, using your logic I should no longer pay taxes.
Property taxes should be eliminated, and we should increase the sales tax and close all loopholes in relationship to service industries. The schools should be managed by private enterprise and held accountable for expenditures.
My kids are grown, using your logic I should no longer pay taxes.
Property taxes should be eliminated, and we should increase the sales tax and close all loopholes in relationship to service industries. The schools should be managed by private enterprise and held accountable for expenditures.