I do not have children, and I never will, yet my property taxes still go toward paying for schools. I’m happy to have my taxes pay for roads, infastructure improvement, fire, police, and all the other municipal services that benefit me as a resident of the county.
The government needs to determine the cost of educating a child from kindergarten to high school, divide this by 18, and apply it as a yearly tax to parents. Children deserve an education, but children also put an additional strain on society. I should not be forced to pay for someone else’s decision to procreate.
“I went to school paid for by property taxes, but I don’t think anybody else should because I obviously learned nothing about civics and society when I went to my property tax-funded school.”
I’m not sure if it’s possible to come across as more entitled, insular and anti-social than your hot take but I’m sure you’ll give it the old college tries in responses here.
I did go go taxpayer-funded schools. They should have been funded by taxpayers who chose to create the children in those schools, like my parents.
How is arguing that people should pay their share entitled? There are a lot of services that everybody needs. Fire, police, roads, health care. We should all share the cost, because at some point, everyone needs those services, even if not right now.
Having children is a want, not a need. Children deserve an education, but the that should be a burden that the parents take on when they make the decision to have a child.
Having a fucking car is a WANT, not a NEED and yet you’re over here masturbating the concrete snake. Take a fucking bus, you freeloading prick.
In most of the US, that simply isn’t true. Without a car, you can’t maintain a job. It is a need.
I don’t have a car. I maintain a job. I live in Texas.
Buy a fucking bicycle and stop being a fat fuck. I’m sick of paying for your commie-ass roads, commie.
Also I think you may have missed the point.