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Why? I pay property tax which mostly goes to education. Why can I not have choice in how that is spent on the education of my children?
by agensaequivocum 6y ago
Why? I pay property tax which mostly goes to education. Why can I not have choice in how that is spent on the education of my children?
- bradlys 6y agoYou presumably also pay federal income taxes - why can't you choose how money on soldiers gets spent? Maybe because there's a societal benefit from people not getting a choice on how each one of their individual tax dollars gets spent... And maybe there's a societal benefit from people not being able to choose which public school they get put into. You're gonna deal with one of two evils: Tyranny of the majority or tragedy of the commons. Most places in the US seem to choose tyranny.
- agensaequivocum 6y agoFederal expenditures are very different and removed from one's local community. Everyone should absolutely get some say in how their money is spent at the local level. > Most places in the US seem to choose tyranny. Very true and very sad as well.
- alphabettsy 6y agoThis is why we have local elections including school boards. Good luck getting Middle school by AWS to offer similar accountability.