Matthias Julius wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> writes: > > >>OK. (This assumes you own a home). Figure out how much you paid in >>property taxes last year. Multiply that by 50. Now, do you think you >>could fund your child(ren)'s education for 12 years on that? I could >>probably afford to educate about 10 children, just on that money. Not >>to mention that where I live, there is an additional "education levy" on >>top of the regular property tax. > > > Does your whole property tax go towards public schools? I imagine > this would only be a fraction of that. > Not sure. I'd have to check into that. Either way, good point. > >>Even better, people who are childless are no longer burdened with paying >>for education of children they don't even have. > > > So there are people without children who pay for public education. > This means the average parent who has kids in a public school is > paying less than what he would have to if he had to pay it all by > himself. > Doesn't that make you feel cheap, though? I mean, I can understand if you are unemployed or if you have fallen on hard times financially. However, I don't particularly like the fact that I and my neighbors (very few of whom have school age children, must are grown up) are *forced* by the government to subsidize education for *everyone else's* children. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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