Originally Posted by
pats102862
Your right, property taxes are wrong. Why should a person with no kids but owns a lot of property pay more in school taxes than some one with several kids in the school system paying little or no school taxes? The system is way screwed up, The people receiving the lions share of entitlements should be paying the bulk of the taxes, but they pay little or no taxes. As for the USP, another entitlement crowd, expects the PGC to provide every hunter with a deer every year.
Paying taxes for education should have nothing to do with how many or whether or not you have children. EVERYONE benefits from education--their own and the education of others so everyone should bear the burden. We have a system that requires that the more you are able to pay, the more you should pay. It's pretty hard to make an argument that that philosophy is wrong. There may or may not be a direct correlation between how much property one owns and their ability to pay and I wouldn't oppose education taxes be linked to income rather than property value but these are details about how to institute a progressive tax, not a philosophical disagreement.