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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Is it fair that a single guy pay $7000 in property tax a year while a family of 5 pays the same? All while their 3 kids are using the school system and park district?
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Taxes like property tax are averaged out between lots/citizens in a society. They are a dispersal of the operating expenses for the services in that area. If you live there and take up one unit (ie: house for property tax purposes), then you must pay the tax associated with that unit.
On another note, people who have children to raise in my opinion have more than enough expenses already. Between computers and school clothes and bicycles and soccer team and larger cars and higher grocery bills, parents have enough on their plate without taxing them for every child directly.
Better to fix the inefficiencies in the system than to just get the money from somewhere else and pump it through the same corrupt system.