I agree that education of our children is important and don't mind doing my part. I do believe that property owners carry the load though. I know there are draw backs but would it not be better to fund another way, say thru sales tax?
"I agree that education of our children is important and don't mind doing my part. I do believe that property owners carry the load though. I know there are draw backs but would it not be better to fund another way, say thru sales tax?"
Sure. That's fine with me. Still, everyone pays property taxes, one way or another. Landlords include property taxes when calculating what to charge for rent.
As far as I know, the only folks who don't pay property taxes is churches, on church-owned property. I'd like to see that exemption disappear.
Last thing we need to do is sales taxes, it's the absolute last thing we need to do. Sales taxes are bad enough as it is, and yet the idiots in one of our suburbs (who already have an 8.5% sales tax) are contemplating breaking off and forming their own school system, where they'd have an even higher sales tax.
The solution to education is the get what you pay for solution, make it all private, there will be varying levels of education, and for students who really are disadvantaged but who could cut it in the better schools, have some sort of scholarship fund set up. I know that alot of our private schools around here have scholarships, and they ain't all for football.