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Nice argument, Dodo bird. I can see the public education has really helped you think, write, and argue well
I wasn't making any argument.
I was merely serenading you. Ingrate!
There is nothing to argue because your posts are all jabberwocky.
But I forgive you because you have grown to be my favorite pet troll on this forum. CaptainNJ is still, and will always be, much more clever than you, but with your high energy brand of nutty screwball responses, you have far surpassed him in entertainment value. I want to buy you a rhinestone collar and a new chew toy as a reward.
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Dodo bird's education was definitely worth the 20k per year!
Alternative facts. Very good! But Dodo bird's education cost far less than 20k per year.
For example, when Dodo bird was attending public primary and secondary schools, Dodo bird's parents didn't own a $2 million dollar mansion estate, in the year 2017, with $30,000 property taxes, of which $20,000 would hypothetically go to Dodo bird's schools. Dodo bird also has birdling siblings, so that $20,000 would hypothetically be split 3 ways, meaning if the Dodos did, in fact, spend $20,000 of their property tax dollars on the Dodo birdlings' schools, Dodo bird's public education would really have cost $6,666.67.
However, since Dodo bird attended primary and secondary schools before the year had a '2' in front of it, Dodo bird's public education cost even less than that!
You get an A+ for effort, but an F-- for logic.
But I agree with you...whatever money my parents spent on my public education was definitely worth it because at the very least, they saved me from being as dumb as you, OceanJackass!
Someone's $20,000 a year property tax bill doesn't all go to the schools. About ~65% go to the schools. The rest go to municipal and county taxes. Do you think that towns plow streets, pick up your garbage/recycling, do leaf collection, provide engineering/public works/police/fire services, maintenance of public parks/libraries/roads, etc. etc. for free, out of the goodness of their hearts?
Not all towns in NJ pick up garbage & collect leaves or employe fire fighters. My town has volunteer fire houses. When someone asks about moving to my town (on CD) and the public school system in my town? They are told to look elsewhere if they are concerned with their kids getting a quality public school education.
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So really, only $13,000 of that $20,000 tax bill is going to schools. Considering that $13,000 per year, PER CHILD, is on the cheaper end of the spectrum as far as the cost of a PRIVATE school education is concerned, I'd say that's not too bad.
How is this is a good thing? A family with more than one kid can send their kid(s) to the public school system and only contribute $13K to the public education system per year, while the retired couple/no kids couple or single person/folks who send their kids to private schools pay the same and either have no kids in the system or send their kids to private.
If one has multiple children & lives/rents in a multi-unit property/complex? One only pays a portion of the LLs property taxes in the form of rent. So they contribute even less to the pool of tax $$ funding public schools.
That doesn't make sense. Not in this day and age and not in NJ, where everything is over the top expensive.
Consolidation of municipal services would be a great start. Figuring out how to fund public schools without the majority of funding coming from property taxes would be even better.
If you want to send your child to a private school, you're going to have to pay for it. Even if that $13K of one's property tax dollars going toward public education was reduced to $2K.
I've got nothing for what it would cost to hire a tutor to homeschool a child.
What I do know, however, is that the tutor (private college counselor as well) I have used for my children charges $75/hr for 6th grade and up. $25 an hour for children in 5th grade and under.
I will ask him what he would charge to privately homeschool a kid, based on age/grade/subject matter.
This is really dependent on one's financial position. You are lucky to not give a hoot about a big property tax bill. Some others arent and would like to save that money for college, retirement, vacation or just making ends meet.
Retriever is so out of touch it hurts....equating a high property tax bill to a high quality of life is a uniquely "Jersey" mindset. I have only heard that argument while living here, and from several different people no less! Gotta love those 1 sq mi utopian fiefdoms!
You've made it clear here and on other threads you're a savvy investor and affluent and those that leave are because they made poor investment decisions. I didn't agree with you then.
I agree, it's great to affluent. I'm glad I am.
As a consumer I think NJ's residents are overpaying for gov't. and just used to it.
If I paid less towards gov't I'd put even more into the economy which is a good thing, don't you agree?
But not everybody is as affluent as you and I and high tax bills DO have an adverse effect on the quality of their lives.
I know, they can just leave but we don't want them going too far.
Somebody has to fix our cars, sell us groceries, pump our gas, re-roof our homes and just serve us.
Let's not have NJ turn into NYC. The well off and the majority who aren't.
Tell us your secrets Retriever! You should write the next "Art of the Deal"!!!!
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