Not only must homeschoolers pay school taxes, but homeschooling is regulated in the state of NY. It's my understanding that NY homeschoolers are required to submit forms and report to their school districts.
If you're denied food stamps, the state doesn't require you to complete forms showing that you're eating and feeding your children certain foods according to the state's schedule. If homeschoolers must follow the rules of the school district, the district needs to kick in with some services.
The problem is the game itself. Food stamps are another government service with it's own set of rules. The main similarity is that just because you pay taxes and are a citizen, it does not mean that you get to collect them.
But the problem is the whole system itself. What everyone here is lamenting is they are paying for a socialist system and not getting benefits to which they think they are entitled. They are asking for “fairness”. But fairness is one of the most subjective word in the english language. The Bible itself does not really even address the concept, other than to tell judges to be fair. Is it fair to “forgive your enemies”? Is it fair to, when a man slaps your cheek, you turn the other to him as well?
Folks, snap out of it! You are starting to sound like Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto that think their food rations should be slightly higher than those of the Jew next to them for some reason.
The REAL problem is that it is 1940 and you (we) are ALL Jews in LODZ. Cut the root and the tree will die. Quit complaining about the thickness of the branch on which you sit.