Must be something about that "takes a village" thing....

I still don't think anybody has given any reasonable explanation why somebody with no kids should pay exactly the same amount in school taxes as somebody with 6 kids. Please enlighten me.

realitybytes - We can agree to disagree, but the comment from the first post "I don't want to pay to educate your children" is an ignorant statement, and that is exactly what I'm talking about.

spark, I think it is you that needs to re-read the posts. The cynicaleye post was "I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you have children in school, you pay to educate them. The more you have the more you pay. I don't want to pay to educate your children. They are your responsibility."

How am I turning those statements around? They are pretty clear statements that I happen to agree with.

I also never said that my parents paid for 100% of my education. I am saying that my parents HAVE paid for their share of my education. In fact my parents paid a larger percentage of their income than a family with 6 kids did. That is not fair.
Am I saying that people with no kids should pay NOTHING? Nope: even those people use the school buildings for theatre events, sporing events etc and they should shoulder SOME of the burden to educate the future of our society. However, people with lots of kids should pay more. After all, more kids means larger schools, more supplies, and more teachers.

realitybytes; I agree with you in a sense. Not so much as education but maybe if we stopped "encouraging" single mothers to keep having kids - they get more $ every month based upon # of dependents & put a little personal responsibility into the equation it would help - but thats all I agree on with your arguement. I dont mind educating them, but have a real problem feeding them, providing rent, heat, food etc. to them

realitybytes - By the way. Everyone else DID pay for part of your education. That's where you are highly mistaken. Did your parents pay for the school you went to all by themselves?

realitybytes - Welcome to reality. How do you think we pay for everything else in this World? Is it my problem that GM got into the troubles they did? Should I have to pay for that when I didn't work there? No, but I will have to at some point. Should I pay for the bike trail if I don't use it? No, but I do. You don't get to pick and choose what you feel is right to pay taxes on.
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Did you even read the first post from cynicaleye? The one I was originally referring to? Read it again. You are completely turning around what was said.

And no spark, I dont think that everybody else paid for my education. My parents paid taxes all their lives (including school tax). However, the guy down the block paid the same as my dad and he had no kids. The family next door paid the same and they had 6 kids. Are you actually saying that was fair?

educating our children does have its benefits. However, there are limits to the extent that we should be taxed to pay for these "benefits". Using the liberal mentality that a childs education will benefit everybody will eventually lead to excessive taxation. First pay for your own kids. Then pay for other kids that live on your block. Then raise taxes more to pay for any kids living in your city, your state, your country, other peoples countries (we currently pay for illegal aliens). Why not take all my money so I can pay to educate the kids living in the jungles of Borneo. After all, a childs education will benefit everybody.
My point: if you choose to have more kids you should be expected to pay more. If you don't want to pay more taxes than a couple that has 2 children, then you need to choose not to have 6 kids. Why do people find this concept unfair?????

realitybytes - How and the hell do you think you were put on this earth? How do you think cynicaleye was put on this earth? You think the magic fairy snapped their fingers and you just showed up? Your parents decided to have you and I'm assuming (although one wouldn't know it) that you went to school. Who do you think paid for that? Paid for the school you went to, etc? That's right genius, everyone else. Suddenly you two think you're above all the other children that deserve the same?
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What's more alarming is that you geniuses don't even realize the children are our future. All you care about is yourselves. Guess what, our children are in deep sh*t because of all the brilliant adults out there that have destroyed a majority of their future and left them with the burden of paying for all our mistakes. Do the World a favor and go back and get an education.

realitybytes; wow - I think you might appreciate it when your older & need medical care, police protection, a financial advisor etc. & actually need something from these kids that will be educated and filling these positions & actually know how to help you in some way.

"It was about children not being his or her's responsibility. Simply, blindly ignorant."

I don't see that your comments are so obvious. Could you please clarify how your genetic prodigy is cynicaleye's responsibility?
Did cynicaley play a part in you kid's conception? Did he somehow talk you into not using birth control? Did he somehow force non-consensual sex upon you? Please explain.
I know for a fact that I had nothing to do with your CHOICE to have children yet I have no choice when it comes to paying to educate YOUR children.

I can't be any more clear as to why that comment is so ignorant. Sorry. It's very obvious and has nothing to do with whether I agree with it or not. It's alarming.

why are his comments ignorant..because you don't agree with them?

realitybytes - The fact is, if someone is going to sit here and blatantly tell me they don't want to pay to educate mine or someone else's children, they better prepare to get hammered for ignorant comments. There are plenty of things we all pay for that don't benefit us all, but benefit our future. Cynicaleye's comment didn't say anything about paying more or paying less for certain schools. It was about children not being his or her's responsibility. Simply, blindly ignorant.

I agree with you spark...tax dollars payed for our education. I don't mind paying for another child's education...better than my taxes going towards a greedy giant company thats failing.

cynicaleye has a valid point and there is no need for putting somebody down for having a different opinion (spark..supermom).
There is indeed a need to ensure that our children our educated. However, the choice to have children comes with the responsibility to raise them. Why should somebody who chooses not to have children have to pay just as much in school tax as a Catholic type octo-mom breeder? They should NOT.

I'd rather pay taxes for education than 90% of the other crap we pay for.
Hmmmm.....bailouts. You haven't seen nothing yet.

No. I am sorry I can't be taxed anymore.

Educating our children affects all of us, whether you have children in the schools or not. I do not have any children in the schools but these kids are still my future as well. Thank you to all of us, especially those raising them, to keeping our future strong. Break down $37 a year, that's $3.08 a month, seriously, that is nothing to keep our schools strong!

cynicaleye - Just curious. Who do you think paid for your education when you were younger? Or maybe you didn't have one and that explains some things.

The lack of intelligence by some of these posts, proves some of you should have been more concerned about your own education. Not mentioning any names....cynicaleye.

cynicaleye, please crawl back into the hole that you came from.

cynicaleye, I don't want to pay for "your" garbage to get picked up or for "your" street to get plowed, but I do, because that is the way it works. It takes a village to raise a child.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you have children in school, you pay to educate them. The more you have the more you pay. I don't want to pay to educate your children. They are your responsibility.

hey it's only another 37 bucks.
on top of the 76 million we're paying back.
on top of 2 billion in new fees and taxes from jimmy d.