Dan said:
...my property taxes keep going up and up... they've basically doubled in five
years. There are many others who feel the same way. The state is losing
population. ... If I don't continue to pay increasingly exorbitant property
taxes, they'll take my house and sell it to someone else for a fraction of what
its worth. And looking at my tax bill, by far the largest chunk of my property
taxes goes to the school district.
dmb says:
Well, it won't be much of a consolation to you but funding schools through
property taxes is a very rotten deal for the schools too. What happens, of
course, is that neighborhoods with big, expensive homes can collect a lot more
more than the areas with lots of rental units, apartment building and modest
houses. With that kind of system, the rich kids get the best schools and poor
kids get the worst ones. That would be bad enough but the effects of poverty
almost always make it harder to teach poor kids and they need more than the
average level of resources, not less. It's like giving the best medical care
only to those who are already healthy.
I knew this instinctively as a kid because we moved around a lot, basically
went to a different school every year. By the time I was ten years I could tell
what the school would be like just by looking at the size of the houses and
such. If they were small, I knew school would be "easy".
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