I don't pay $10,000 per year in taxes. And that leads to the question, where does that additional $7000+ come from? If I send my kids to private schools or home school, or my kids are out of school, why is it my responsibility to pay for other kids to go to school? If you'd have read this thread, you'd have seen, I spent $3000 per year, out of my own money, plus taxes to send my kid to private school. I spent less than half the average for school. The question is, where is the waste going? Aren't you concerned where our tax dollars are being spent?
It comes from people who don’t have kids, old folks and people like you who don’t feed at the trough.
If I send my kids to private schools or home school, or my kids are out of school, why is it my responsibility to pay for other kids to go to school?
It’s not, and that is my point. People need to get off the dole and take care of their own responsibilities. It’s no more your responsibility than it is your responsibility to pay their mortgage.
If you'd have read this thread, you'd have seen, I spent $3000 per year, out of my own money, plus taxes to send my kid to private school. I spent less than half the average for school. The question is, where is the waste going? Aren't you concerned where our tax dollars are being spent?
Sure I’m concerned about where they are going. We know where a large part goes. It is inflated salaries and unneeded jobs. In fact, most goes to waste. On top of that, some goes to fraud and abuse. The socialist schools are no different than any other bureaucracy doing a job private industry should be doing. They do it worse at higher cost.
You can take some comfort in not being a sponge and sucking looking to others to care for you. Plus your kids aren’t dumped on classroom bureaucrats expecting to get an education.
But that's what you expect. So you want the government to subsidize something you cannot or will not pay for yourself.
And that leads to the question, where does that additional $7000+ come from?
Business taxes, federal government, people with higher incomes than you.
If I send my kids to private schools or home school, or my kids are out of school, why is it my responsibility to pay for other kids to go to school?
If I don't have any kids why is it my responsibility to pay for other kids to go to school? Because you draw an indirect benefit from a good school system. Your neighborhood is more desirable and your property value increases.
If you'd have read this thread, you'd have seen, I spent $3000 per year, out of my own money, plus taxes to send my kid to private school.
That is your choice and you are free to make it. But if your state is like mine, your state constitution says that the state will establish and maintain primary and secondary schools. It doesn't say that it will subsidize private schools.
I spent less than half the average for school.
I've no doubt that if you investigated you would find it costs your private school more than what you pay in tuition to keep the school running. Your kids are subsidized by the church, donations, fund raisers, what have you.
The question is, where is the waste going? Aren't you concerned where our tax dollars are being spent?
I can't speak for your school system, but my daughter has spent 9 years in the local school system (Blue Valley in Kansas) and has received an excellent education. She's had outstanding teachers, good facilities, an excellent course of study, and we couldn't be happier. As for waste, it would cost us considerably more to send her to the local private high school than we are paying in taxes.