all of society benefits from producing educated citizens, so all of society needs to contribute to funding public education- this is what our nation decided a long time ago, so that ship has sailed
The problem has become the tax burden dumped on property owners as if they were all “rich” or willing to pay anything levied on them, to save their homes. Eventually there just are not enough bucks. This needs to change
I have failed to see any output of ‘educated’ citizenry vs. $$ and spent in the name of that endeavor.
And, though, that Social ideal of ‘community education’ (it takes a village B.S.) may have sailed, does not make it set it stone for eternity.
One, like all other things in life, should pay for services rendered. No use = no pay.
It’s not about the taxation, it’s about the spending...Let’s attack the spending first.
“all of society benefits from producing educated citizens, so all of society needs to contribute to funding public education- this is what our nation decided a long time ago, so that ship has sailed”
That argument for it died when “puclic education” stopped educating children. Here in NJ, between a property tax cap (similar to California’s) and a freeze for seniors, a shrinking amount of money is available for the teachers’ workfare program anyway.
“The problem has become the tax burden dumped on property owners as if they were all “rich” or willing to pay anything levied on them, to save their homes. Eventually there just are not enough bucks. This needs to change”
Here in NJ it is changing; taxpayers (individual and corporate) are fleeing, leaving illegals, the permanent underclass, and the shrinking government workforce (due to budgetary constraints) to “administer” them.