I agree with you. I have also never had children, but do not mind a chunk of my property taxes going toward our (very good) school system. Even if it did not provide for the future, the quality of the schools adds to the value of my property, since parents clamor to be in my school district.
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but do not mind a chunk of my property taxes going toward our (very good) school system.
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That "chunk", is about 75% of your property taxes and 40% of state taxes.
In other words without the public education boondoggle you could cut property taxes to one quarter of their present size and abolish the state income or sales taxes (the average state raises about 40% of its revenue from each of the income and sales tax).
Education is important, far too important to be left to the people who run the DMV or Amtrak. Public education is simply andother wealth transfer, welfare program and should be treated as such.