Posted on 11/08/2012 2:30:56 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
That is the **same** reasoning used by “conservatives” when they send their kids off to the government school indoctrination camps. How often do we hear parents say, “ We paid for the ‘schooling” ( indoctrination) in our property taxes.”
Well, that is true: Public schools are primarily funded through property taxes so they have entitlement to the school system. Every one of us that went to public school can thank our neighbors for their taxes; property taxes, sales taxes, etc, that funded those schools. We can argue if the school system funding is proper or even if public school systems are proper but the people that were taxed for the school systems have every right to send their kids to the school. It is why I believe after school activities that serve the community are proper, such as craft fairs, Boy Scouts, etc.; those are our buildings. We all pay for them.
I think we need to try and quantify some potential impact we can make on the beast by going Galt. I’ve added up at least $7,800 in spending that I can easily chop out. (I’ve already acted on things like work-forced charity, gym membership, cable etc...) I can probably come up with more with a more careful look at food spending and other entertainment items.
Obviously small business owners and the like can make a much bigger impact, but even in my small case 60 million * $7,800 = $468 billion annual impact on the economy. Now I’m wondering if there would be a mulitplier to this effect?
Government schools are the very definition of government welfare.
And...In a decade or two **all** of the arguments used to defend our nation's system of single-payer, socialist-funded, compulsory-used K-12 schools will be used to defend **Obamacare**!!!
Will do. I did some searching, only thing I found was the NYT pay site. Got to be something out there, though - I’ll keep looking.
HYPOCRICY ALERT Wintertime is also "guilty" of this, but neglects to admit it. While gallivanting around the globe Wintertime took advantage of the public school "babysitting." This was after one of his/ her children were removed for making racial comments to a minority student and getting into a fight over the matter.
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Bravo!
As the mother of teen/young adult boys I wanted to stand up and cheer at every word you wrote!!
It’s all about my kids now. My husband is 55 and I’m 50, gone is any hope that I can get back to any kind of career. I have a computer science degree and make $13/hour doing something completely unrelated.
If my husband were offered early retirement, we would take it. We will be very mobile and go where our boys can have some real hope for the future.
I already warned them that wherever they end up, their old man and old lady will follow them. We will not live in the same house with them, but we will move within driving distance from them. They seem okay with that! lol
Calling me names does not make the truth go away. Discrediting others ( and their family) in an attempt to make the truth go away doesn’t work here on Free Republic.
But....Since you are a professional government teacher, I am certain you would never use this debating technique on your emotionally and educationally immature students. Nope! In your position of power over them you would never do that. To do so would be child abuse.
As for the racial slurs, I believe you must have my family confused with another people in you life.
Calling me names does not make the truth go away. Discrediting others ( and their family) in an attempt to make the truth go away doesn’t work here on Free Republic.
But....Since you are a professional government teacher, I am certain you would never use this debating technique on your emotionally and educationally immature students. Nope! In your position of power over them you would never do that. To do so would be child abuse.
As for the racial slurs, I believe you must have my family confused with another people in you life.
Why? Use the money now and deny Washington its use for a year. put it in the bank or pay down a debt. It won't change your overall tax burden. If you owe taxes you'll just pay them on April 15th instead of early. If not you get to keep your money without giving Uncle Sam an interest free loan.
What a narrow minded myopic (That means short sighted or near sighted) comment. Have you personally tested the IQ's of every single one of my colleagues? Have you been given access to their college transcripts?
Please keep making these baseless attacks, all you are doing is more harm than good to your cause.
Your synopsis is correct, but adding two or more dependents shouldn't change ones tax withholding enough to hurt them come April 15.
As for the rest I would love to hear some "truth" from you. If you did it would certainly be a first. As for the racial slurs, I believe you must have my family confused with another people in you life.
If I am in error then it is because you are once again changing your story. I am glad to see that you are not attempting to deny your hypocritical actions.
exactly - thanks ! - It is extremely personal now - they are cheating my children -
I had a long conversation with my daughter last night -she came to me…. I actually told her I am sorry she’ll not have the same financial success as me as long as interest rates screw the saver, as long as 401k’s languish and as long as they can only get substandard work -
I told them both stay as long as you want - no charge…it breaks my heart….we were married and in a house at their age - but it cant happen for them now
…..next, starts the inflation
Just finished defreinding every ahole friend that voted for this nonsense
I agree with your disagree of #2.
Having waited tables in college, it is hard, thankless work. I would be more prone to vote conservative if someone left a larger tip and left a card saying that you are proud to reward a working person, rather than give money to someone wanting a gov’t handout and then some kind of conservative endorsement.
I was a delivery driver who worked straight commission. If THAT doesn’t make you a conservative nothing else will. ;)
I like telling people first that I don’t like Obama, because the unprofessional servers learn a better lesson that way. There’s nothing quite like them treating me like garbage and then having them see their tip.
Reload your ammo.
I work straight commission now-—realtor
I have several colleagues that are VERY liberal. Seems like “the cause” is more important to them than paying more taxes.
I tell you, the liberal mind is just wired different. It is futile to carry on any kind of political discussion.
Reload your ammo.
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