It amazes me that we pay "property taxes" at all. But, people get scared that if they get to keep their own money and pay for services themselves their garbage won't get picked up or the firemen won't show up when their house is burning. As someone who spent a lot of my life in *very* rural America, we paid low taxes and had to deal with things on our own and somehow we did just fine. In my opinion, property taxes (like many other taxes) are to pay for government worker's salaries and retirements while offering substandard service (in a most cases) at inflated prices. What a disgusting scam. And yet, when offered to get rid of property taxes (as North Dakota did some years back) the people reject it.
i pay for my own garbage service to a private local company that picks up like clockwork! it's quite inexpensive too vs gov fleecing and associated subpar quality of services in general. at least the post office, insolvent as it is, charges for postage on a per usage basis and does a decent job vs public schools.
Yep. We used to pay for our own here where I am is well. Unfortunately, we got some monsters in charge that changed everything "for the earth". Now, if we roll the dumpster to the curb once every month or once a week it costs the same insane amount. Government destroys everything it touches.
When my kids were young we lived in Santa Monica, which is its own city within LA County. We had to pay property taxes to both Santa Monica and LA schools. My son could read at 3. Our local public school said they would do everything they could to slow him down and discourage his reading until he was along the same level of his peers, usually by age 8 or 9. So, we paid for public schools in 2 districts and for private school until we decided to homeschool.
unbelievably sad... this is so upside down... your story is mind blowing... totally broken system... also love you for your pursuit of your childтАЩs best interests!ЁЯТХЁЯР▒ЁЯТХ
...ever inflating property taxes do contribute to the problem... during COVID, never remind тАШremoteтАЩ learning, the public high school down the street completed a multimillion dollar renovation including huge new performing arts center, new football stadium and solar panel array covering entire student body parking lot... these were тАШWANTSтАЩ not тАШNEEDSтАЩ... must STARVE THE BEAST... back to the basics and prep for the insane challenges that lay ahead for these kids
prop taxes are wholly the problem here as per your "starve the beast" sentiment. without property tax theft the parasitic progressives running these public skool would not have access to plasma, and as such would migrate to other hosts (ie gov positions). and their thirst for blood only increases = budgets only ever increase. you get the drift.
edit: and imagine all that additional disposable income from not getting mugged via taxes, and how that could be effectively deployed for education, and other freedoms?
let's not have properties taxed for public schools is the first step, actually.
It amazes me that we pay "property taxes" at all. But, people get scared that if they get to keep their own money and pay for services themselves their garbage won't get picked up or the firemen won't show up when their house is burning. As someone who spent a lot of my life in *very* rural America, we paid low taxes and had to deal with things on our own and somehow we did just fine. In my opinion, property taxes (like many other taxes) are to pay for government worker's salaries and retirements while offering substandard service (in a most cases) at inflated prices. What a disgusting scam. And yet, when offered to get rid of property taxes (as North Dakota did some years back) the people reject it.
i pay for my own garbage service to a private local company that picks up like clockwork! it's quite inexpensive too vs gov fleecing and associated subpar quality of services in general. at least the post office, insolvent as it is, charges for postage on a per usage basis and does a decent job vs public schools.
Yep. We used to pay for our own here where I am is well. Unfortunately, we got some monsters in charge that changed everything "for the earth". Now, if we roll the dumpster to the curb once every month or once a week it costs the same insane amount. Government destroys everything it touches.
I also pay for garbage service and a fire subscription to the volunteer fire department.
When my kids were young we lived in Santa Monica, which is its own city within LA County. We had to pay property taxes to both Santa Monica and LA schools. My son could read at 3. Our local public school said they would do everything they could to slow him down and discourage his reading until he was along the same level of his peers, usually by age 8 or 9. So, we paid for public schools in 2 districts and for private school until we decided to homeschool.
unbelievably sad... this is so upside down... your story is mind blowing... totally broken system... also love you for your pursuit of your childтАЩs best interests!ЁЯТХЁЯР▒ЁЯТХ
...ever inflating property taxes do contribute to the problem... during COVID, never remind тАШremoteтАЩ learning, the public high school down the street completed a multimillion dollar renovation including huge new performing arts center, new football stadium and solar panel array covering entire student body parking lot... these were тАШWANTSтАЩ not тАШNEEDSтАЩ... must STARVE THE BEAST... back to the basics and prep for the insane challenges that lay ahead for these kids
prop taxes are wholly the problem here as per your "starve the beast" sentiment. without property tax theft the parasitic progressives running these public skool would not have access to plasma, and as such would migrate to other hosts (ie gov positions). and their thirst for blood only increases = budgets only ever increase. you get the drift.
edit: and imagine all that additional disposable income from not getting mugged via taxes, and how that could be effectively deployed for education, and other freedoms?