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Ok, so you eliminate the public school system and real estate taxes go down by one third or so and now people have to come up with $20-$30K per kid per year for school. Now you have a society that is even dumber because people can't afford to sent their kids to school.
I fail to see how this is better than what we have now. Plus, in many states access to free public public education is in the constitution so that would be part of why you and I should both pay for public schools even if we don't use the services.
Without taxes I don't see how you can fund public schools.
Private schools don't cost $20-30,000 a year. They cost less per pupil than publik schools. Most'em, leastways.
And public school is not free. All we have done is shifted the majority of the cost from the consumer to the non-consumer. Which promises inefficiency and incompetence.
Nobody LIKES getting taxed. However, it is nice to live in a society with tax funded waste water treatment plants, sanitation, police, roads, traffic signals, street lights, schools, hospitals . . .
Oh, did I forget to mention our tax funded Military which happens to be the World's Strongest?
Private schools don't cost $20-30,000 a year. They cost less per pupil than publik schools. Most'em, leastways.
And public school is not free. All we have done is shifted the majority of the cost from the consumer to the non-consumer. Which promises inefficiency and incompetence.
I went to private school and have seen the prices, they do in fact cost $20K-$30K/year. Private schools spend less per pupil because the administration cost is less and there are no unions to deal with. Changing who pays does not change the demand for education. The public schools system inefficiency comes from a number of issues including the fact that they don't have to compete for funding/kids.
Private schools don't cost $20-30,000 a year. They cost less per pupil than publik schools. Most'em, leastways.
And public school is not free. All we have done is shifted the majority of the cost from the consumer to the non-consumer. Which promises inefficiency and incompetence.
One of the reasons is they don't layers of administration and their underlings.
I'm picking this post to reply to semirandomly, because it brings up a point.
I don't mind paying taxes to support common use assets and services, which is what you're talking about. I have much more of a problem paying taxes to support services and direct payment to particular classes of people, especially when those are on a permanent basis (ie, I'm okay with unemployment because it's short term and temporary, I'm not okay with welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.) And it's those programs that are sucking up most of the tax collections on a national basis.
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Originally Posted by Zenstyle
I pay taxes quarterly, and do so willingly. Here's why:
I like having sidewalks to walk on, instead of muddy paths.
I like using my public library.
I like having bike paths.
I like access to public transportation.
I like breathing clean air and drinking clean water.
I like buying produce that doesn't contain E. coli.
I like shopping locally, rather than online, knowing some money goes to my State, which needs it badly.
I like knowing that others are doing the same, thus contributing to the community in which we live.
If you're just talking income taxes yes 40 percent is too much.
No, all taxes.
But let's just look at income taxes. Our effective rate of federal income taxes is 33 percent and we make less than $250,000 a year. Is that too high?
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