I like the sentiment, but don't see how it helps as long as our progressive tax structure is skewed as it is.
Welfare moms would find out the Big Education costs them nothing...maybe it would show them that they get more benefits the more they have illegitimate kids!
Taxpayers without kids would get reminded that they are getting hosed.
And rich people would probably reduce their private philanthropy when they realize how many kids they're already supporting.
Please read post #42.
Collectivist school taxes cost **everyone** a BIG bundle!
The property, income, sales, and other business taxes ( AKA: collectivist school taxes) are rolled into ( and hidden in) the price of every good and service a person uses. This includes the welfare mom and the richest among us.
Even when buying something a simple as a roll of toilet paper, the citizen pays collectivist school taxes. In this one aspect, hidden collectivist school taxes are the flattest taxes going. The poorest really are getting hammered.
That's how "progressives" do it - they keep hammering at "issue" until the sentiment changes, the difference being they have to make up and/or lie about the "issue" while here the issue / the problem / the "nail" is obvious - it just needs a hammer.
Welfare moms would find out the Big Education costs them nothing...
Welfare moms should find out and understand how much it really costs them - in increased prices from "third parties" passing the taxes and fees onto their bills and their children reduced to life in a welfare state because of poor education while the "government worker" (teacher or school administrator) gets a great retirement package and summer vacations.
Taxpayers without kids would get reminded that they are getting hosed.
That's exactly the idea - if they keep getting reminded, they might just decide to do something about it... If they don't get reminded, they'll keep voting for next increase of taxes "for schools," and the next one...
And rich people would probably reduce their private philanthropy when they realize how many kids they're already supporting.
They'll raise the prices for the services and products, passing the taxes on the middle class and welfare moms, to keep up with margin squeeze due to taxes and pay for their children's private schools... or they'll take their "marbles" and relocate them to less taxing, more hospitable state. But they are the smaller percentage of population, so they don't usually carry the brunt of education taxes as much as the other ones.
Gotta have a hammer and keep hammering the issue... they don't call them the "activists" for nothing, that's how they make money by convincing people that they get something "for free" or "from the rich". Show them how much it costs them, in money now and later and in the future (or lack of it) of their children.