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If it were simply about your taxes, that's one thing. [1] But voucher systems aren't simply that. For example, https://www.woodridge.k12.oh.us/m/news/show_news
by eesmith 2y ago
If it were simply about your taxes, that's one thing. [1] But voucher systems aren't simply that.
For example, https://www.woodridge.k12.oh.us/m/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=607885&id=0&fbclid=IwAR1VZ6xAdStIii9RSpcCWwvaVVxjIZWa0iNMgPE3O46l508g649_-NbLNbs https://www.woodridge.k12.oh.us/m/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=... says the voucher then would be $6000 per student.
It is extremely unlikely that your family is paying $6000 in taxes earmarked for the school.
If you send your kid to a voucher school then your taxes, plus those of a lot of other people, are directed away from public schools and into private/voucher schools. Including by people who think the voucher system is corrupt, and without the "public audit, public representation, uniform accounting, teacher licensure, public records rules, student testing requirements, or many other mandates that public schools are forced to follow." (Quoting that link.)
The voters directly voted for local property tax levies for the school district. They did not vote for these levies to be sent to voucher schools. It was the state which overrode local democracy.
[1] Not a good thing, but it is a thing. I don't get to decide to not pay taxes for the new road construction even though I think the road construction system is corrupt.