Everyone in our county that can get out of public and into private schools do just that, which takes more money than what they already pay in school taxes. Most of the time, a better education is offered in private schools. What does that leave? Poor folk in the public school system? Not always, but there is a larger percentage. School taxes always seem to rise when a person owns things. Those that don't own a home don't pay school taxes? Larger majority are home owners that pay it. Does that mean the poor don't pay school taxes? The poor go to public school? Let's say the middle to poor people. Only the rich do not worry about property taxes that pay them. Why not donate more money into the private sector, knowing it works better? Enough of this: education starts at home.
Build a new public school. Hire the same guys that are "in" with your system. Think they get the best? No. They are out for profit. The children don't care about the building. It needs replacing faster because of who built it and other things. Same people, same ethics, same goals self-oriented. All of a sudden one notices how much education money is being spent on finer facilities to draw more children? Maybe, but let's surely keep those in the "system" making their bundles. It becomes work ethics. It becomes waste. It becomes pockets to fill every year with school funds. There is less to educate with left. Raise the taxes or mil rates, right? Gosh. The taxpayers are all retiring and dying off....just when they were learning what was going on. New folk take their places.
Properties are sold by those aging because they just cannot keep up with the taxes. They are fighting now to keep a home, so please don't allude to their not caring.
Raise the voting age? Some adults only vote for a black person, or a woman, or a Hispanic, or for who is after more help for the poor so they can sit it out a while longer. Some vote for all kinds of things. In the meantime, They are loading khemical weppons
onto a fighter jet right now to kill innocent people. Some belligerent child is trying to go to war by pushing the system. Tens of thousands of refugees of the millions are dying just in Nigeria. Everything eventually affects us some way. Wait. It's alright: Clint Eastwood is our President now. Everyone liked him. It's going to be alright. Let's take care of our own first. Meanwhile, a Russian bomber is flying next to Alaska. Maybe there should be a test for who runs for office, but like you said: who would write and give it.
The Romans had games to keep the people entertained so they would not look elsewhere at other things. My phone is ringing, let me check all the social sites, and maybe download another game. Get rid of the WWW: it has closed businesses and left people jobless, which gives less tax money for the system to work with. It has given terrorists a way to communicate. Slow down. We need to get back to the basics. Dads, play some ball with your sons. Moms, teach your daughters to cook and do their homework. When someone steps in and starts telling everyone what to do, you will know it is a failed system. Maybe that needs to happen. I think it will one day. Fighting like clubs to run America sux. I love America, but it isn't the same and is getting worse because of adults infighting in politics, and children fighting in the streets. Too many people want too many things. I want to get paid. What do you want?
From that quote you extrapolated all that?
I am aware of how property taxes are paid and what they go to thanks but no thanks for the big lesson.
You missed my whole part about - How can we keep the educations system unbiased...non-partisan.
Are we going to teach the kids which party to join now?
JK
It seems like that is the problem now...parents passing outdated biases and things like racism to their children.
I don’t own a smart phone...in fact, mine doesn’t even take pictures.
I agree with parents spending more time with their kids, and that education starts at home.
Moms should teach their SONs and daughters to cook...I’m teaching my Son.
He should be able to sew on a button, do his laundry and dishes, cook, clean properly, balance his paycheck for bills, etc., etc.
As far as the “system” making money...yeah, that's why no one wanted Betsy DeVos and Co. to turn all our public education systems into private for-profit schools with little oversight and even less funding to actual programs that benefit the learning of our children.
As far as paying taxes goes...that’s just part of living in society.
Right now though the playing field is not level.
For instance...this new “healthcare” plan, will give multi-million dollar, retroactive capital gains taxes to millionaires and billionaires (prior to the ACA, to the very wealthy who have been supposedly “paying the burden of taxes”.)
And the cost of that is to raise the price of healthcare services...if you are over 55...expect to pay triple what you do now, with fewer patient protections and guarantees that exist with the ACA.
And it is expect to price out in the first year alone - 22 million people, on top of the 25 that already can’t afford it and don’t have it.
50 Million in the first year alone.
To destroy Medicaid is to literally kill people...this will kill men, women, and children.
Many our elderly of which you speak....and 8 million of whom are children.
Yeah...when the country is divided as such -
So there is probably a good majority of people who can’t afford to own a home and pay those property taxes, but they still pay taxes in their state and federally in other ways.
Most are working people.
They don’t just sit at home and collect welfare.
I am well aware, more so than some on this forum about the terrible atrocities going on around the world.
Us attacking Syria for them committing terrible acts will pull us into a war with Iran and Russia...we are acting idiotic.
We are never going to get rid of the WWW.
That just isn’t feasible.
Some adults are very biased in their voting...but they have every right to still vote.
I swore an oath to protect that right.
Which is what I told the gentleman outside the grocery store getting people to sign petitions for a bathroom bill in WA.
I know this seems very important to them...but just as you outlined, we have huge and greater things amiss in the world that we should be concentrating our efforts on...not trying to take away the civil liberties of someone whom has been judged by assumed sexual identity and orientation but mostly appearance...they pay taxes just like us all...they are humans just like us all.
But we as humans jump to conclusions and generalize the group as molesters and rapists that must be kept from our bathrooms.
It is they who are more likely the victims of sexual assault and rape statically...so there goes that argument...nor have I ever (though I’m sure it’s happened) have seen a news story of a transexual sexually assaulting someone.
Wasting time in front of the grocery store.
But I’m sure they feel strongly in their convictions and I can respect that....just not the taking rights away from people because your moral judgement is stuck on “hate what you don’t understand” when Jesus taught just the opposite.
I was married to a HS teacher and was with a Special ed teacher for some time...I can tell you first hand that it is not the teachers who are the problem in 98% of the cases.
They work many unpaid hours to prepare...work when they get home...work after school, before school....buy most of their own supplies for the kids, etc.
Take a look at how much college costs now compared to when you probably went.
It’s unjustified.
Where did those increases come from?
The administrative costs...the teachers sure haven’t seen the raise.
As a matter of fact....wages have stagnated in the US since Reagan, and we have a whole party fighting to pay hard working people as little as possible, and to give them as little as possible in return for the taxes they pay.
That’s a joke.
We need affordable everything here in the US....because the middle class is dipping down in to the working poor.
We are gouged relentlessly here.
If we want people off food stamps then maybe we should pay them enough so they no longer qualify - which would also hopefully mean that they have enough then to support themselves.
Instead we demonize them and make it seem like our social programs are the huge drain on our already borrowed budget.
It is war which is the number one destructor of realizing a more utopian society here in the US.
You can disagree with me and say it’s necessary...I don’t disagree that it is....just not funded to the point that it is.
We should pull out of any and all wars...work with allies on humanitarian disasters, instead of carpet bombing runways that we called ahead and gave warning to with $60 million dollars worth of bombs.
Or how about corporate welfare...do you know how much sits in offshore accounts?
Untaxed.
How many tax subsides huge, profitable, stocks that gain year after year - then we turn around and hand them the hard-earned money taken from people’s paychecks.
That is BS.
I don’t want to get paid....I want my taxes to fund the society I live in representative to the amount that people pay.
That isn’t happening.
People see that and are pissed off.
