[Ohioan from Florida]

Why should the parents who send their children to private school have to pay school taxes that won't benefit their own children? To me that sounds just as socialist as a voucher program if not more so.

[teenyelliott]

I agree with that, too.

However, if that were the case, then people with no children would not have to pay into the system, either. And if you remove all of those people, public schools go under.

Or, the mill levy for those who do have children goes way, way up, and then in essence it becomes a privately funded school, i.e. only those with students pay for the school.

The premise I suppose is that society in general benefits when children are educated, so we all throw into the pot.

Problem is, liberals and unions have ruined our public schools.

So, what is the answer?

For me, it is to send my children to suburban public schools, while I, as the parent, pick up any educational slack, which is my responsibility as a parent.

[Non-Sequitur]

Why should the parents who send their children to private school have to pay school taxes that won't benefit their own children? To me that sounds just as socialist as a voucher program if not more so.

Why pay for parks they don't use or roads that they don't drive on or prisons that they don't inhabit?