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Originally Posted by noexcuseforignorance
You might want to spend some time looking into the demographics of first world countries. Too many children is not a problem from which the United States is suffering.
Yes, taxes rise over time. Likely your home value has as well. How much money have you made from it? What's wrong with moving to a lower cost of living area? There were housing taxes when you bought your house originally yes? Why didn't you move to an area that didn't have them?
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Why should anyone be forced to move out of their "life long" (if that is the case) home to a lower cost of living "area" due to a never ending yearly increase of funding public schools through property taxes?
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Being old and angry is no real excuse to want to try to give disincentives for families to not have children. Were this policy in place 20 years ago, people like me might not be around to pay for the social security, medicare and prescription drugs that you enjoy now.
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I think there are two separate issues that the OP brought up. Property taxes rising due to funding public schools- and if the OP lives in a state like mine? That happens every year. The "oh, it's only $400 a year of an increase, only $100 per quarter - why would you take that away from THE KIDS"? BS. Do that 5 times over a 10 year period and your property taxes increased $2K, without taking into consideration inflation, or the rising costs of services that the rest of your property taxes get increased "due to" via county and municipal, run of the mill items.
Telling people how many kids they should have and they need to pay extra fees for any number of children over two is another issue.
That idea is not going to solve anything.
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There are 50 states in this country. There are plenty of places to live where you don't have property tax. Why not move to one of those places. I'm sure there's a boat load of equity in your house to pay for that.
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That's an unfair assumption and really has NOTHING to do with school boards passing budgets that raise everyone's property taxes year after year after year - especially with so much misappropriation, waste and BS in those budgets.
Why should someone have to pick up and move away from family, friends, out of a life-long comfort zone b/c some crappy public school system keeps demanding more and more money...and never has anything to show for it? You can improve facilities, technology all you want to. Doesn't make the students any smarter b/c if that were the case? The 30M Abbott schools would be turning out geniuses left and right.
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