"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message
...

Yep. Why should a person's abilities determine what tax they pay? Is
there
a deduction right now for a lack of abilities? One thing I think ought
to
be done away with is elderly folks paying school taxes. It's
ridiculous.


Not at all. The elderly benefited in their youth from public schools and
in
their productive years from schools for their children. Do you honestly
think that in that limited time span that the percentage of the tax that
went to the schools was enough to cover their own education and that of
their children? My total annual property taxes are less than it would
take
to send one child to private school for one year. The public schools make
it up by spreading it over a taxpayer's lifetime. Or are you saying that
during their working years, a person's property taxes ought to be
increased?


Welp, whatever it takes, I suppose...I'm just not a supporter of as much
taxation as there is. And, I think Sr. Ctitizens shouldn't have to pay
taxes and that if that needs to be accommodated, then the school taxes
should be increased during the years of some hereto-undertemined-age-limit
based timeframe. YMMV


Keep in mind that even if a person never has children, they still benefit
from the public education of the community as a whole. If they did not
pay
school taxes, they would end up paying increased taxes to support an
increased number of people on welfare. It's far cheaper to pay school
taxes
so people can be productive than to support them on welfare.


Hmmm, hadn't thought about the people not having kids. If they aren't going
to add to the burden of society (terrible way to put that...but) by having
kids, then they get the break, too. After all...it'd probably come up a
wash anyway; a trade for the tax-break they'd get on their annual income for
not having to pay school tax if they don't have kids.

I like the idea of giving people who choose *NOT* to have kids breaks (on
local school taxes), as well as those who choose to have kids (on federal
income tax deductions).


Whatever the IRS considers as income...the total taxable income that is
reported on a W-2--and that's determined by IRS rules, which ultimately,
I
suppose are determined by we the People (yeah, right, but you get the
gist).


They keep changing the rules on that you know.


Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


Yeah, but this is a democracy--we have a voice in that (pfffffft, right,
eh?).

Kim W5TIT