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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
But I think that's what the point of this thread was. To see if there should be a tax for those who have kids as opposed to those who don't. Of course there is no way around it right now, but that doesn't make it right either. I lived in an area with high property taxes. The high school's football field looked like many colleges, they had laptops for all the kids, they had a ridiculous school. This school trumped almost every college campus I had ever been on in terms of technology and newness. Is it really fair for me to fund that when I have no kids attending it and my neighbor has 3?
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I equated the point of this thread with doing your income tax and the child tax benefit thing, as is evident in my earlier posts. The reason I did that was because I saw a potential there for having some room to maneuver. I see no such maneuvering room with property/school tax, it is what it is. It's a given, you buy a house you pay those taxes.
A thread on GFY isn't going to change it.
Like I said, the option out is to become an apartment dweller. Or if you're really enterprising you could buy rental property. You still have to pay the taxes but at least you have rental income coming in to offset it.