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Taxes pay for schools and ongoing infrastructure maintenance, as well as services, like trash collection. Do you like having drinkable water in your house and

Taxes pay for schools and ongoing infrastructure maintenance, as well as services, like trash collection. Do you like having drinkable water in your house and not having piles of trash on the sidewalks (Or having walkable sidewalks at all)? Do you like talking to educated neighbors? Yeah, those taxes pay for that. If you want to get as close to "owning your own land", move 100 miles out of a metropolitan area. Just don't complain about having no roads, no water, internet, electricity or access to the hospital when you need it most.

Turing_Machine 4y ago
> Do you like having drinkable water in your house and not having piles of trash on the sidewalks These are poor examples. Privately-owned water systems and trash collection are both very common, at least in the United States. Where I live now, both are city services. Where I lived immediately before, both were private. > move 100 miles out of a metropolitan area. Just don't complain about having no roads, no water, internet, electricity or access to the hospital when you need it most. Most houses in rural areas of the United States have perfectly adequate roads, have a private well, and get their electricity from a rural electric cooperative. Internet was tough, but Starlink has mostly solved that.
jjav 4y ago
> Taxes pay for schools and ongoing infrastructure maintenance, as well as services, like trash collection. > Do you like having drinkable water in your house and not having piles of trash on the sidewalks At least here, taxes don't pay for either of those things. Water is billed by the water agency and trash collection is a private company with their own billing.
fortran77 4y ago
No they don't. Property Taxes pay to make schoolteachers millionaires with gold-plated pensions.
- nunez 4y ago
  Is thid satire? School teachers make nowhere near that, even post retirement, with a pension. The state with the highest salary band for primary education is Maryland at $99500 at 90p. Most states cap out below $132k, and that's after 20 years of experience and several Master's degrees in Education (not free). Admins make more than that, but not much more. Private school educators are paid by tuition and do not receive property tax revenue afaik. Police officers in many cities make more than this (also funded by prop taxes). Also, a thought experiment: what if it _were_ possible for teachers to retire as multi-millionaires? How would this impact the quality of education our children receive? How would this impact our future societies?
  - fortran77 4y ago
    How much money would you have to have in order to retire with the pension and benefits a schoolteacher gets? Be sure to factor in the cost of the health insurance and cost of living adjustments they get. You mention the cost of their education but you’re no doubt aware of the Federal Schoolteacher Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
readthenotes1 4y ago
Your reply is tangential to my post, except for the last paragraph, in which you make an astounding claim that there is some place in my country where a taxing authority fails to apply a tax. Rather than me search for your myth, perhaps you can show me an example? (I know plenty of people with land more than 100 miles outside a metropolitan area, and they do have roads, electricity, and schools. Water is from a well, and the govt does not supply internet. Some places have a county hospital, some don't)

Turing_Machine 4y ago

> Do you like having drinkable water in your house and not having piles of trash on the sidewalks These are poor examples. Privately-owned water systems and trash collection are both very common, at least in the United States. Where I live now, both are city services. Where I lived immediately before, both were private. > move 100 miles out of a metropolitan area. Just don't complain about having no roads, no water, internet, electricity or access to the hospital when you need it most. Most houses in rural areas of the United States have perfectly adequate roads, have a private well, and get their electricity from a rural electric cooperative. Internet was tough, but Starlink has mostly solved that.

jjav 4y ago

> Taxes pay for schools and ongoing infrastructure maintenance, as well as services, like trash collection. > Do you like having drinkable water in your house and not having piles of trash on the sidewalks At least here, taxes don't pay for either of those things. Water is billed by the water agency and trash collection is a private company with their own billing.

fortran77 4y ago

No they don't. Property Taxes pay to make schoolteachers millionaires with gold-plated pensions.

nunez 4y ago
Is thid satire? School teachers make nowhere near that, even post retirement, with a pension. The state with the highest salary band for primary education is Maryland at $99500 at 90p. Most states cap out below $132k, and that's after 20 years of experience and several Master's degrees in Education (not free). Admins make more than that, but not much more. Private school educators are paid by tuition and do not receive property tax revenue afaik. Police officers in many cities make more than this (also funded by prop taxes). Also, a thought experiment: what if it _were_ possible for teachers to retire as multi-millionaires? How would this impact the quality of education our children receive? How would this impact our future societies?
- fortran77 4y ago
  How much money would you have to have in order to retire with the pension and benefits a schoolteacher gets? Be sure to factor in the cost of the health insurance and cost of living adjustments they get. You mention the cost of their education but you’re no doubt aware of the Federal Schoolteacher Student Loan Forgiveness Program.

readthenotes1 4y ago

Your reply is tangential to my post, except for the last paragraph, in which you make an astounding claim that there is some place in my country where a taxing authority fails to apply a tax. Rather than me search for your myth, perhaps you can show me an example? (I know plenty of people with land more than 100 miles outside a metropolitan area, and they do have roads, electricity, and schools. Water is from a well, and the govt does not supply internet. Some places have a county hospital, some don't)