Thanks for understanding that this is an abstract discussion rather than a personal one. I do respect the fact that you're doing the best you can.
Last note, I promise, and I'll leave ya alone. :) You pay $6k in school tax. Cost of educating one school child, typically, is around twice that.
Presuming you had just one child, you'd be getting subsidized to the tune of around 50 percent of the cost to taxpayers. It's welfare hidden in plain sight.
Be good -- and keep alerting the kids to the perils of progressive-liberal-socialist practices. A little anti-venom is better than no anti-venom!
“You pay $6k in school tax. Cost of educating one school child, typically, is around twice that.”
Probably not in NJ any more (at least in our district, and several neighboring ones); we’ve been laying off teachers (as well as cops, firemen, and other municipal workers), letting school buildings crumble (as well as our whole infrastructure), etc. as part of Governor Christie’s tax revolt. I’ll trade the difference in credits for the elderly care, welfare, public housing, etc. that I subsidize through my municipal taxes, as well as my state and federal income taxes, that I don’t benefit from. Governor Christie was elected by the dwindling number of taxpayers left in NJ, and is doing his best to stop us from fleeing (leaving only welfare broods and illegal aliens).
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Keep the Faith.